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In 1900 in China a peasant movement known as the Boxers rose up and tried to destroy its Western oppressors. The culminating event of the Boxer Rebellion was the siege of the Western legations in Peking. In isolated Peking, a horde of brightly dressed, acrobatic, anti-Western and anti-Christian Boxers surrounded the fortified diplomatic legation compound, and rumors about the torture and murder of 900 Western diplomats, soldiers, and missionaries swirled throughout the foreign media.
Scholars agree that animosity toward Christian missionaries was a major cause of the Boxer Rebellion, but most accounts neglect the missionaries and emphasize instead the diplomats and soldiers who weathered the siege and defeated the Chinese in battle. This book gives equivalent attention to the missionaries, their work, the impact they had on China, and the controversies arising in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion. It focuses particularly on one of the most distinguished American missionaries, William Scott Ament, whose brave and resourceful heroism was tarnished by hubris and looting.
Contents
Table of Contents
List of Maps
Prologue
1. The Fists of Righteous Harmony
2. Will Ament in China
3. Red-Headed Devils in Peking
4. The Semi-Siege
5. Admiral See-No-More
6. The Empress Dowager
7. The Assassination of the Baron
8. In the British Legation
9. Herbert Hoover and Smedley Butler
10. A Tour of the Defenses
11. The Tartar Wall
12. The Conquest of Tientsin
13. The Darkest Days
14. Life Under Siege
15. Not Massacred Yet
16. Marching to Peking
17. Rescue
18. Ament's Palace
19. The Looting of Peking
20. Mark Twain and Will Ament
Epilogue
American and Canadian Missionaries in the Siege at Peking
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
