The Boxer Rebellion

Contents
Prologue
l The Poison in the Well: China on the Eve of the Boxer Rebellion
	1 A Thousand Deaths
	2 Boxers and Devils
	3 The Approaching Hour
	4 Rats in a Trap
	5 “Sha! Sha!”
ll “Death and Destruction to the Foreigner!”  20 Jue-21 July 1900
	6 A Failed Rescue
	7 City of Mud and Fire
	8 Behind the Tartar Wall
	9 The Drifting Horror
	10 The Darkest Night
lll War and Watermelons: 21 July–14 August 1900
	11 A Truce and a Triumph
	12 The Half-Armistice
	13 Horsemeat and Hope
	14 In through the Sluice Gate
lV Murder, Rape, and Exile: Scenes from the Boxer Summer
	15 “Tour of Inspection”
	16 The Island of the Peitang
	17 The Faith and Fate of the Missionaries
	18 The Spoils of Peking
V Another Country? China iin the Wake of the Boxer Rebellion
	19 The Treaty
	20 The Court Returns
	21 . . . And the Foreigner Departs
	22 The Boxer Legacy
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Art Credits
Index