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Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

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Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

by Preston, Diana

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9780425180846
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Berkley Books, 2001. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7. Berkley Books, 2001. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover is lightly rubbed around all edges, lower front corner tip ruffled, crease down spine. Glued binding is solid, tight. Inside front cover has a few colorless smudges. B/w illustrations. Spine images are Chinese woodblock prints, 1900, The Granger Collection. Pages are clean, unmarked, no creases or tears. A meticulously researched re-creation of the tragedy that consumed China over a century ago when the Western powers were bickering over how to slice up the pie of China, while their presence there was already undermining the Chinese people's traditional way of life. A new movement began to spread like wildfire among the Chinese peasants--the contemptuous foreigners called then "The Boxers'. a reference to their martial-arts routines. They never imagined that such a group, with the backing of th Empress Dowager, would soon terrorize he world. Diana Preston captures the human interest, folly, irony, and tragedy of this historic upheaval. 464 pages.. 8vo. 2001, Berkley Books.

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Chinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced. Then a new movement-mystical, materialistic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread among them like wildfire. The foreigners laughed at the peasants' martial-arts routines and nicknamed them "the Boxers"-never imagining that the group, with the backing of China's empress dowager, would soon terrorize the world...This acclaimed account of the Boxer Rebellion, by an Oxford-trained historian, is an important new addition to every shelf of high-quality, highly accessible history.

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Title
Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
Author
Preston, Diana
Format/Binding
Soft cover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0425180840
ISBN 13
9780425180846
Publisher
Berkley Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2001
Size
8vo - over 7
Keywords
CHINA , HISTORY; BOXER REBELLION, 1899-1901;
Bookseller catalogs
History. China;
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0 oz

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