HIST 106g Study Guide - Final Guide: Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Protocol, May Fourth Movement
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By the end of the 19th century, the western powers and japan had forced china"s ruling qing dynasty to accept wide foreign control over the country"s economic affairs. By the late 1890s, a chinese secret group, the society of righteous and. Harmonious fists, had begun carrying out regular attacks on foreigners and. Chinese christians: the boxer uprising was a rebellion in opposition to foreign imperialism and c. In 1900, the boxer movement spread to the beijing area, where the boxers killed. Chinese christians and christian missionaries and destroyed churches and railroad stations and other property: on june 20, 1900, the boxers began a siege of beijing"s foreign legation district (where the official quarters of foreign diplomats were located. ) Germany, italy, japan, russia, the united kingdom and the united states) arrived to take beijing and rescue the foreigners and chinese christians: the boxer rebellion formally ended with the signing of the boxer protocol on.
