China's Boxer Rebellion

Covers an incident known as "The Boxer Rebellion" in China from 1899-1901, when a revolutionary society known as The Boxers revolted against what they saw as foreign occupation and exploitation of China, and--with the tacit help of the Chinese government--attacked foreign installations and businesses and murdered foreigners and any Chinese they saw as helping them. They laid siege to the foreign legation in Peking, which held out for 55 days before a combined force of European, American and Japanese troops arrived to rescue them. . Tens of thousands of people--mostly Chinese--were killed before the uprising was finally put down.