Chinese Burns: The British in China 1842-1900
Robert Bickers shows how the history of British and European imperialism in China helps explain the ferocious Boxer War of 1900.
The Boxer Rising began in the obscurity of the north-west regions of China's Shandong province in 1899. It finished as an international crisis. The Chinese siege of the foreign legations in the capital city Beijing from June 20th to August 14th, 1900, gripped the world's press. It fed and still feeds a steady stream of memoir and narrative to willing publishers.
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