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Author : Ada Haven Mateer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503798838
Author : A H (Ada Haven) Mateer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020782242
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.
Author : Ada Haven Mateer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : UOM:39015014160520
Author : Mrs. A. H. Mateer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0484200046
Excerpt from Siege Days: Personal Experiences of American Women and Children During the Peking Siege We have received wonderful mercies. The larger ones have already been given to the world, but not the countless little ones that made up our daily life during that summer of 1900. Let us gather up these fragments, after the great miracle, that nothing be lost. Let us record them now lest we forget. The plan is that every lady and child among the American missionaries should write on some subject. Of course, children are not limited to any subject. Let their little hands pick up all the crumbs they can. Some will object that enough books have already been writ ten ou the siege, as they have, on the causes of the uprising, its statistics, diaries of the siege, etc. But nothing exactly like this. This is to give the small details of daily life, a record of little daily mercies, which cannot but be interesting to Chris tian women, and which would otherwise die in oblivion. Let us all pray for the blessing of God upon the book, that His name may be glorified by it. 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.
Author : Larry Clinton Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786453382
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.
Author : Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674983397
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.
Author : Robert Bickers,R. G. Tiedemann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742571976
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.
Author : Lanxin Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136865893
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.
Author : Heribert von Feilitzsch
Publisher : Henselstone Verlag LLC
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780985031701
Felix A. Sommerfeld was a German secret service agent assigned to Mexico. During the Mexican Revolution (1910 to 1920) he became a close confidante of Mexican President Madero as well as revolutionary leaders Carranza and Villa. He significantly influenced German and American foreign policy towards Mexico.
Author : Grant Hayter-Menzies
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888083008
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
Author : Robert Bickers,Jonathan J. Howlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317419037
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.
Author : Anthony E. Clark
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295805405
One of the most violent episodes of China’s Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural beliefs on both sides of the conflict and shows how they came to clash. Although Franciscans were the first Catholics to settle in China, their stories have rarely been explored in accounts of Chinese Christianity. Anthony Clark remedies that exclusion and highlights the roles of Franciscan nuns and their counterparts among the Boxers—the Red Lantern girls—to argue that women’s involvement was integral on both sides of the conflict. Drawing on rich archival records and intertwining religious history with political, cultural, and environmental factors, Clark provides a fresh perspective on a pivotal encounter between China and the West.
Author : Susanna Hoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110970519
"The Boxer uprising; the siege of the legations; 55 days in Peking; foreign troops looting China's capital; these are images from books and films over the past 100 years. Now the story is told from the women's point of view, using their previously neglected writings and giving a new dimension. This is the author's fourth book about foreign women and China. It adds to the essential body of women's history and gives a truer picture of what happened a century ago." --
Author : Anthony E. Clark
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746685
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.
Author : Ada Haven Mateer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019052729
