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_bPRE
100 _aPreston, Diana
245 0 _aBoxer Rebellion
260 _bNational Geographic Books
_c2001
500 _aChinese 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.
650 _aHistory
942 _cENGLISH
999 _c577702
_d577702