Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 (平装) 0425180840

Chinese 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. A dramatic narrative that can be read on the beach or in the classroom...well-researched and lavishly descriptive accounts.-- The Christian Science MonitorDiana Preston, an Oxford-trained historian, writer, and broadcaster, is also the author of The Road to Culloden Moor and A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole.

出版社	Berkley Trade
作者	Diana Preston