A Brief History of the Boxer Rebellion by Diana Preston

A Brief History of the Boxer Rebellion

Diana Preston

459 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This is an account of the ferocious uprising of Chinese peasants and the ensuing siege of Peking in the summer of 1900 - a 55-day confrontation between the Boxers (so-called for their martial-arts skills) and the Westerners they terrorized. The dr...

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