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Rebellion In China Around 1900

Around 1900, after many
years of succumbing to the superior military of the West, the
Chinese stood up for their country. China was a weak,
backwards, country, exploited by the West. They felt that
they could counter the foreign domination, but reforms were
useless because they needed the West to help with the
reforms. But something sparked their confidence, and they
believed themselves to be able to conquer any foreign
power. This spark was the Society of Harmonious Fists,
commonly known as "Boxers." Combined with unhappy
people, and new weapons technology, the Chinese rebelled
against the foreign powers. The first reason of this
confidence was the Boxer Society, which formed in North
China after the Sino-Japanese war, but wasn't well known
until 1898 in Shantung. This organization was actually a cult,
following strange and absurd practices of defense. It had no
central leaders, and the practices varied in different
locations. Their goal was to rid China of the......


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