Author : Ada Haven Mateer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : UOM:39015014160520
Siege Days
Ada Haven Mateer
Siege Days Personal Experiences Of American Women And Children During The Peking Siege
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Siege Days; Personal Experiences of American Women and Children During the Peking Siege
A H (Ada Haven) Mateer
Author : A H (Ada Haven) Mateer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020782242
Siege Days; Personal Experiences of American Women and Children During the Peking Siege by A H (Ada Haven) Mateer Pdf
Siege Days is a first-hand account of the 55-day siege of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Ada Haven Mateer, an American missionary, recounts the harrowing experiences of herself and other women and children trapped inside the American legation. This book offers a glimpse into the daily struggles and triumphs of those who endured one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Siege Days. Personal Experiences of American Women and Children During the Peking Siege [of 1900].
Ada Haven Mateer
Author : Ada Haven Mateer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503798838
Siege Days. Personal Experiences of American Women and Children During the Peking Siege [of 1900]. by Ada Haven Mateer Pdf
Siege Days
Mrs. A. H. Mateer
Author : Mrs. A. H. Mateer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1333231938
Siege Days by Mrs. A. H. Mateer Pdf
Excerpt from Siege Days: Personal Experiences of American Women and Children During the Peking Siege A year after the lifting of the Peking Siege, the fol lowing letter was sent to all American missionary women who had been in Peking at that time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Siege Days
Ada Haven Mateer
Author : Ada Haven Mateer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019052729
Siege Days by Ada Haven Mateer Pdf
William Scott Ament and the Boxer Rebellion
Larry Clinton Thompson
Author : Larry Clinton Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786453382
William Scott Ament and the Boxer Rebellion by Larry Clinton Thompson Pdf
In 1900 in China a peasant movement known as the Boxers rose up and tried to destroy its Western oppressors. The culminating event of the Boxer Rebellion was the siege of the Western legations in Peking. In isolated Peking, a horde of brightly dressed, acrobatic, anti-Western and anti-Christian Boxers surrounded the fortified diplomatic legation compound, and rumors about the torture and murder of 900 Western diplomats, soldiers, and missionaries swirled throughout the foreign media. Scholars agree that animosity toward Christian missionaries was a major cause of the Boxer Rebellion, but most accounts neglect the missionaries and emphasize instead the diplomats and soldiers who weathered the siege and defeated the Chinese in battle. This book gives equivalent attention to the missionaries, their work, the impact they had on China, and the controversies arising in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion. It focuses particularly on one of the most distinguished American missionaries, William Scott Ament, whose brave and resourceful heroism was tarnished by hubris and looting.
The Boxers, China, and the World
Robert Bickers,R. G. Tiedemann
Author : Robert Bickers,R. G. Tiedemann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742571976
The Boxers, China, and the World by Robert Bickers,R. G. Tiedemann Pdf
In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. This war introduced the world to the "Boxers," the seemingly fanatical, violent xenophobes who, believing themselves invulnerable to foreign bullets, died in their thousands in front of foreign guns. But 1900 also saw the imperialism of the 1890s checked and the Qing rulers of China move to embark on a series of shattering reforms. The Boxers have often been represented as a force from China's past, resisting an enforced modernity. Here, expert contributors argue that this rebellion was instead a wholly modern resistance to globalizing power, representing new trends in modern China and in international relations. The allied invasion of north China in late summer 1900 was the first multinational intervention in the name of "civilization," with the issues and attendant problems that have become all too familiar in the early twenty-first century. Indeed, understanding the Boxer rising and the Boxer war remains a pressing contemporary issue. This volume will appeal to readers interested in modern Chinese, East Asian, and European history as well as the history of imperialism, colonialism, warfare, missionary work, and Christianity. Contributions by: C. A. Bayly, Lewis Bernstein, Robert Bickers, Paul A. Cohen, Henrietta Harrison, James L. Hevia, Ben Middleton, T. G. Otte, Roger R. Thompson, R. G. Tiedemann, and Anand A. Yang.
The Other Great Game
Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Author : Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674983397
The Other Great Game by Sheila Miyoshi Jager Pdf
Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula. The battle to colonize Korea upended East Asian geopolitics, set great-power conflicts of the twentieth century in motion, and seeded internal rivalries that persist in the peninsula’s division between North and South.
The Origins of the Boxer War
Lanxin Xiang
Author : Lanxin Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136865893
The Origins of the Boxer War by Lanxin Xiang Pdf
This is the first book to provide a panoramic view of the origins of the Boxer War. Comprehensively examining this historical conundrum of the 20th century from a detached perspective, the book is based on ten years of exhaustive research of both unpublished and published materials from all nine countries involved. Analysing the misunderstanding between the Chinese and foreign governments of the day, Lanxin Xiang debunks the traditional view that the anti-foreign Empress Dowager of the Chinese Empire was chiefly responsible for this catastrophic episode which altered the course of 20th century China's relationship with the west.
Sites of International Memory
Glenda Sluga,Madeleine Herren,Kate Darian-Smith
Author : Glenda Sluga,Madeleine Herren,Kate Darian-Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781512824063
Sites of International Memory by Glenda Sluga,Madeleine Herren,Kate Darian-Smith Pdf
Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices, material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of collective memory is everywhere, installed in the name of not only nations, or even empires, but also an international past. The essays in Sites of International Memory address the notion of a shared past, and how this idea is promulgated through sites and commemorative gestures that create or promote cultural memory of such global issues as wars, genocide, and movements of cross-national trade and commerce, as well as resistance and revolution. In doing so, this edited collection asks: Where are the sites of international memory? What are the elements of such memories of international pasts, and of internationalism? How and why have we remembered or forgotten "sites" of international memory? Which elements of these international pasts are useful in the present? Some contributors address specific sites and moments--World War II, liberation movements in India and Ethiopia, commemorations of genocide--while other pieces concentrate more on the theoretical, on the idea of cultural memory. UNESCO's presence looms large in the volume, as it is the most visible and iconic international organization devoted to creating critical heritage studies on a world stage. Formed in the aftermath of World War II, UNESCO was instrumental in promoting the idea of a "humanity" that exists beyond national, regional, or cultural borders or definitions. Since then, UNESCO's diplomatic and institutional channels have become the sites at which competing notions of international, world, and "human" communities have jostled in conjunction with politically specific understandings of cultural value and human rights. This volume has been assembled to investigate sites of international memory that commemorate a past when it was possible to imagine, identify, and invoke "international" ideas, institutions, and experiences, in diverse, historically situated contexts. Contributors:Dominique Biehl, Kristal Buckley, Roland Burke, Kate Darian-Smith, Sarah C. Dunstan, David Goodman, Madeleine Herren, Philippa Hetherington, Rohan Howitt, Alanna O'Malley, Eric Paglia, Glenda Sluga, Sverker Sörlin, Carolien Stolte, Beatrice Wayne, Ralph Weber, Jay Winter.
The Empress and Mrs. Conger
Grant Hayter-Menzies
Author : Grant Hayter-Menzies
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888083008
The Empress and Mrs. Conger by Grant Hayter-Menzies Pdf
This is the story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart--imperial China and the American Midwest--who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between East and West, the fifty-five day siege of the Beijing foreign legations known as the Boxer Uprising. Using diaries, letters and other sources,The Empress and Mrs. Congertraces the parallel lives of Empress Dowager Cixi and American ambassador's wife Sarah Pike Conger, which converged to alter their perspectives of each other and each other's worlds. Grant Hayter-Menziesis the author ofImperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Lingand the biographer of stage and screen stars Charlotte Greenwood and Billie Burke. "Sarah Conger's story is worth telling for many reasons. She occupied a point in time that makes her interesting, but the author demonstrates that she is interesting in her own right-a flawed and fascinating individual whose story we want to read not for what we learn about Chinese history, but for what we learn about a woman profoundly typical of her era and class leading a life of determination in the belief that the right combination of positive attitudes and common sense must win out over adversity." - Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
Patriots or Traitors
Stacey Bieler
Author : Stacey Bieler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317478348
Patriots or Traitors by Stacey Bieler Pdf
This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivelance towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exhanges as a political device.
Public Success, Private Sorrow
Isidore Cyril Cannon
Author : Isidore Cyril Cannon
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789622099616
Public Success, Private Sorrow by Isidore Cyril Cannon Pdf
The story of an Englishman who lived through the last years of the Qing dynasty, was trapped in the British Legation during the Boxer uprising and went on to occupy a number of senior positions in the Imperial Customs as Commissioner of Customs in various ports, Shanghai Postmaster and first Director of the important Customs College.
Britain and China, 1840-1970
Robert Bickers,Jonathan J. Howlett
Author : Robert Bickers,Jonathan J. Howlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317419037
Britain and China, 1840-1970 by Robert Bickers,Jonathan J. Howlett Pdf
This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both sides, such as British worries about, and exaggeration of, the ‘China threat’, including to India, and British aggression towards, and eventual withdrawal from, China.
China Gothic
Anthony E. Clark
Author : Anthony E. Clark
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746685
China Gothic by Anthony E. Clark Pdf
As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in revealing ways. This phenomenon is evident in the twin biographies of North China’s leading Catholic bishop of the time, Alphonse Favier (1837–1905), and the Beitang cathedral, epicenter of the Roman Catholic mission in China through incarnations that began in 1701. After its relocation and reconstruction under Favier’s supervision, the cathedral—and Favier—miraculously survived a two-month siege in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Featuring a French Gothic Revival design augmented by Chinese dragon–shaped gargoyles, marble balustrades in the style of Daoist and Buddhist temples, and other Chinese aesthetic flourishes, Beitang remains an icon of Sino-Western interaction. Anthony Clark draws on archival materials from the Vatican and collections in France, Italy, China, Poland, and the United States to trace the prominent role of French architecture in introducing Western culture and Catholicism to China. A principal device was the aesthetic imagined by the Gothic Revival movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the premier example of this in China being the Beitang cathedral. Bishop Favier’s biography is a lens through which to examine Western missionaries’ role in colonial endeavors and their complex relationship with the Chinese communities in which they lived and worked.
