Clearly, the discriminate violence of the Boxers shocked and angered the international community. This paper contends that the Boxer Rebellion both wounded and opened relations between China and the outside world.
The Boxers could not differentiate between the Christian missionaries’ desire to proselytise China’s peasants and forced westernisation. The atrocities occurred between 18 when the Boxers began targeting their perceived enemies in the Shandong region of China before spreading north to Beijing. The Boxer Rebellion instigated an unprecedented coordinated military response from international powers after The Righteous and Harmonious Fists more commonly known as the Boxers had mutilated and slaughtered thousands of Chinese Christian converts, Western missionaries and foreign nationals. On China’s relations with the rest of the world?
What Impact Did the Boxer Rebellion Have on China’s World Relations?
