The Boxer Rebellion
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a wave of violent nationalism swept across China as a secret society of martial arts practitioners — the Boxers — rose up to expel foreign powers and eradicate Christian influence from their ancient land, igniting one of history's most dramatic international crises. Richard O'Connor's The Boxer Rebellion chronicles the extraordinary fifty-five-day siege of the Peking Legation Quarter in 1900, where diplomats, missionaries, and soldiers from a dozen nations were trapped behind crumbling walls while eight foreign powers assembled an unprecedented allied relief force to march through the heart of Imperial China. With a journalist's sharp eye for drama and a historian's command of detail, O'Connor reconstructs the chaos, courage, and political intrigue of a conflict that signalled the beginning of the end for the Qing Dynasty and reshaped the Western world's relationship with China for generations to come. Drawing on a rich wealth of firsthand accounts and archival sources, O'Connor — a prolific chronicler of American and world history — presents the Boxer Uprising not merely as a military confrontation but as a profound collision of cultures, empires, and ideologies at a pivotal crossroads of modernity. His narrative is brisk, authoritative, and deeply human, illuminating the perspectives of Empress Dowager Cixi, the besieged foreign nationals, and the Boxers themselves with equal clarity and unflinching scrutiny. The Boxer Rebellion remains a compelling and essential account of an episode that, more than a century later, continues to cast a long shadow over Sino-Western relations — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of that shadow still lingers today.
Author: Richard O'Connor
Format: Hardback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a wave of violent nationalism swept across China as a secret society of martial arts practitioners — the Boxers — rose up to expel foreign powers and eradicate Christian influence from their ancient land, igniting one of history's most dramatic international crises. Richard O'Connor's The Boxer Rebellion chronicles the extraordinary fifty-five-day siege of the Peking Legation Quarter in 1900, where diplomats, missionaries, and soldiers from a dozen nations were trapped behind crumbling walls while eight foreign powers assembled an unprecedented allied relief force to march through the heart of Imperial China. With a journalist's sharp eye for drama and a historian's command of detail, O'Connor reconstructs the chaos, courage, and political intrigue of a conflict that signalled the beginning of the end for the Qing Dynasty and reshaped the Western world's relationship with China for generations to come. Drawing on a rich wealth of firsthand accounts and archival sources, O'Connor — a prolific chronicler of American and world history — presents the Boxer Uprising not merely as a military confrontation but as a profound collision of cultures, empires, and ideologies at a pivotal crossroads of modernity. His narrative is brisk, authoritative, and deeply human, illuminating the perspectives of Empress Dowager Cixi, the besieged foreign nationals, and the Boxers themselves with equal clarity and unflinching scrutiny. The Boxer Rebellion remains a compelling and essential account of an episode that, more than a century later, continues to cast a long shadow over Sino-Western relations — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of that shadow still lingers today.