History in Three Keys
The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
History in Three Keys
The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
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£35.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106511
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 11/03/1998
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.
The most adventurous writing on modern Chinese history currently available. History An extraordinary book. It is breathtaking, bold in concept, innovative in methodology, provocative at times, and eminently readable. -- Edmund S. K. Fung Asian Studies Review Cohen offers excellent insight into the idiosyncratics of the Boxer movement, including its ideas, origins, rituals, and development... Highly recommended. Library Journal
