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Article: A battle that made the world see red.(Features)(Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 13, 2000
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THE BOXER REBELLION: THE DRAMATIC STORY OF CHINA'S WAR ON FOREIGNERS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD IN THE SUMMER OF 1900 By Diana Preston Walker & Co. 436 pp., $28
One hundred years ago this summer, Western relations with China reached a new low. Three months of war left a trail of blood and brutal memories that would affirm each side's worst stereotypes of the other. During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the ruthless behavior on both sides confirmed Chinese fears of Western imperialism as well as Western anxieties about the "yellow peril."
Relying on the diaries of Westerners who witnessed the events, Diana Preston presents a dramatic narrative that can be read ...