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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 The 1900 uprising against foreigners in China—led by a society of martial artists secretly encouraged by the Dowager Empress Cixi—left tens of thousands of Chinese dead and marked the beginning of the …
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