The Boxer Rebellion Fails to Remove Foreign Control in China
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Empires, Dynasties, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Human Rights
- Curriculum: British History, Asian History
- Geographical Location: China
- Date: June, 1900-September, 1900
Article abstract: The Boxer Rebellion marked the final attempt of the Chinese of the Ch’ing Dynasty to throw off the yoke of foreign imperialism.
Summary of Event
After the First Opium War (1839-1842) with Great Britain, China was continually subjected to foreign pressure. The Treaty of Nanking (1842), following the First Opium War, and the Tientsin Treaty (1858) and Peking Convention (1860), following the Second Opium War, allowed a system of foreign enclaves, the Treaty Ports, to be set up in dozens of Chinese cities. Foreign diplomats, not Chinese...
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