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Article: A FUTURE PRESIDENT PLAYS PART IN RIVETING TALE OF BOXER UPRISING.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 24, 2000
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Herbert Hoover was under fire. Guiding U.S. Marines toward the gates of Tientsin, he realized the attack was crumbling, he was outrunning the Marines, Chinese sharpshooters lined the city walls - and he was unarmed.
Hoover and his wife, Lou, had left for Asia on their wedding day. He was prospecting for coal and mineral deposits, and together the couple explored remote areas of Mongolia and Manchuria. A century ago this spring, however, a bizarre sect called the Boxers (their ritual exercises reminded Westerners of pugilists) kindled China's nationalist passions, which had mounted during decades when the Western powers broadened their beachheads of imperialism.
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