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Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : UOM:39015059650773
Reconstructs the events surrounding the siege of the foreign legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
Author : William Alexander Parsons Martin
Publisher : Irish Academic Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951002170936R
Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : Marboro Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000018867657
Author : Susanna Hoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : W A P (William Alexander P Martin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019646985
This book provides a first-hand account of the Siege of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Martin, a medical missionary at the time, tells the story of the siege from the perspective of a foreigner living in China. He provides detailed descriptions of the events that transpired and offers insight into the political and social dynamics at play during the rebellion. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Chinese history and international relations. 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 : Peter Harrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472803047
In 1900 a violent rebellion swept northern China – the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to rid their country of the pernicious influence of the foreign powers who had gradually acquired a stranglehold on China. With the connivance of the Imperial Court they laid siege to the legation quarter of Peking. Trapped inside were an assortment of diplomats, civilians and a small number of troops. They were all Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister in Peking, had to defend against thousands of hostile Boxers and Imperial troops. It would now be a race against time. Could the rag-tag defenders hold out long enough for the gathering relief force to reach them? This book describes the desperate series of events as the multinational force rushed to their rescue.
Author : Peter Felming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : OCLC:1350537061
Author : William A. P. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0857060759
Experiences of battle and hardship in early 20th century China The siege of the foreign legations in Peking in 1900 is a familiar moment in history principally because it joined in common adversity the ministers, citizens and military men of several nations in a defence within exotic surroundings against the Boxers and Imperial Chinese Army. The United States, Japan, Russia, Italy, The Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Germany and Spain were all involved. The first attempt to relieve the besieged failed and the multi-national garrison was left to its own devices for several weeks. This account of the siege from within, by an American civilian, provides the reader with an invaluable insight into one of the most unusual episodes of modern military history. Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket.
Author : Lancelot Giles
Publisher : [Nedlands, W.A.] : University of Western Australia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027805442
Author : William Alexander Parsons Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : LCCN:10029214
Author : Nigel Oliphant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011983710
Author : S. M. Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010329097
Author : Nigel Oliphant
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230337350
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... SIEGE OF TBI FOREIGN LEGATIONS AT PEKING SUMMARY OP EVENTS PEIOE TO THE BEGINNING OP JUNE 1900 All through the winter the missionaries throughout North China have persistently been anticipating trouble owing to the continual and unchecked increase in the numbers and power of the I Ho Tuan, an anti-foreign society having for its patrons some of the highest officials in the realm. There had been many cases of attacks on inland missionary stations, and in December an English priest was brutally killed by these people. In this case the murderers were punished, but in the numerous other cases where only Chinese converts were slain no action was taken. The first outbreak directly affecting the foreigners in Peking and.Tientsin took place on May 28th, when a band of Boxers burnt some stations on the Luhan (Belgian) railway line, and the employes had to fly to Peking. The Imperial Chinese railway authorities in Tientsin received the news that the Boxers were marching on fengtai, the junction between the Luhan line and the Peking branch of the Imperial Eailway f North China. They accordingly asked the ientsin Viceroy to send up some troops, but the usual delay was shown, and the next day the station and workshops at Fengtai were burnt, and the foreign ofiicials all up the line had to be called in. The train to Peking, of course, did not get through that day. On the following day 500 Chinese soldiers went up by special train, and for the time being the line was safe. By noon on May 31st some 550 of the foreign troops, which were wired for by the Ministers, had arrived in Tientsin, and 350 left for Peking the same day. I also left for Peking, where I found things fairly quiet, though there had been cases of abuse of foreigners in the streets. The...
Author : William Meyrick Hewlett
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230200606
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... atrocities. I tell you we are boiling, and long for relief, not only to get out of our (to-day) very tight fix indeed, but also for an awful and just revenge on these unprincipled murderers. At 11.30 came the news that the Nan Tang (S. Cathedral) was on fire, a building 278 years old, and of great historical interest, containing as it did a Memorial Tablet given to the Cathedral by the Emperor Kang Hsi. It was l miles from our Legation towards the tlsuin Chi Men, but for fear of weakening the Legation defence, they dare not send immediate help. Bishop Scott's (except the church and dwellinghouse, which went next day) burnt and looted. At 12.45 Capt. Wray captured a Boxer, and he was put in our cells. He was unarmed, or he would have been shot at once. It was a pity he was'nt, as the boys and Mafus, etc., in the Legation thought he could breathe fire and harm the Legations when bound, and many left. He came out to the North Bridge kowtowing and making idiotic gestures and said he was going to buy food. Two disgraceful Edicts were published condoning the Boxers.'" Another Council of War was held. At 7, the Germans on the Tartar City wall, seeing a meeting of Boxers outside the wall, fired from the wall and killed 10 odd, dispersing the rest. This started the most terrific yelling I have ever heard, you cannot conceive the row, and the yells of "Sha," "Sha" (Kill! Kill!), etc., lasted till 11.30, but the Chien Men and the Ha-ta Men were shut, and they could not get in. The Americans and Russians caught a man setting fire to Legation Street. Two large fires were reported from our south stable picket, where I went up to have a look out. I had just left and got to the Ping Gate, when I heard firing from our north picket. The Boxers had...
Author : Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110811663
Account of the lives of diplomats stranded inside the Legation buildings in Peking during the Boxer Uprising. Told through diplomatic papers and the diary of the British ambassador in Peking, Sir Claude MacDonald.
