Format:
1 online resource (252 pages)
ISBN:
9780742571976
Content:
In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer war, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. The Boxers have often been represented as a force from China's past, resisting an enforced modernity. Here, expert contributors argue that this rebellion was instead a wholly modern resistance to globalizing power, representing new trends in modern China and in international relations. This volume will appeal to readers interested in modern Chinese, East Asian, and European history as well as the history of imperialism, colonialism, warfare, missionary work, and Christianity.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Table of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 - Village Politics and National Politics -- CHRISTIANITY IN CENTRAL SHANXI -- THE SPREAD OF THE VIOLENCE -- THE SOCIAL CAUSES OF VIOLENCE -- THE TARGETS OF VIOLENCE -- INTERVILLAGE POWER STRUCTURES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 2 - The Church Militant -- THE ESTABLISHMENT AND GROWTH OF CATHOLICISM ON THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN -- THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE ON THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN -- BOXER ATTACKS REPULSED -- MISSIONARIES AND IMPERIALISM -- CONFLICTS IN SOUTH SHANXI -- INCIDENTS IN INNER MONGOLIA -- FOREIGN MILITARY INVOLVEMENT ON THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 3 - (A) Subaltern('s) Boxers -- NOTES -- 4 - Reporting the Taiyuan Massacre -- PROBLEMS OF DOCUMENTATION: THE DEARTH OF EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS -- WHAT HAPPENED IN SHANXI IN JULY 1900? -- THE "TAIYUAN MASSACRE" OR MASSACRES IN TAIYUAN: QUESTIONS OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- NOTES -- 5 - Looting and Its Discontents -- "A CARNIVAL OF LOOT" -- FROM LOOT TO PRIZE AND TROPHY -- VARIATIONS ON A THEME -- CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM -- NOTES -- 6 - Scandals of Empire -- THE NORTH CHINA INCIDENT AND THE JAPANESE PUBLIC SPHERE -- THE YOROZU CHŌHŌ AND THE BIRTH OF A SCANDAL -- DIMENSIONS OF THE SCANDAL -- THE HORSESHOE SILVER AFFAIR AND BOXER WAR LOOT -- SCANDAL AS "GOSSIP MADE TEDIOUS BY MORALITY"? -- THE DISCOURSE OF THE SCANDAL -- CONSEQUENCES OF THE SCANDAL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 7 - After the Fall -- NOTES -- 8 - The Boxer Uprising and India -- NOTES -- 9 - The Boxer Uprising and British Foreign Policy -- NOTES -- 10 - Humanizing the Boxers -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780742553941
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780742553941
Language:
English
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