Summary
This volume is a detailed account of the Boxer crisis in China, tracing anti-foreign agitation, official responses, and the mounting danger to missionaries, railways, and foreign residents around Peking and Tientsin. It also includes reports of diplomatic correspondence, imperial decrees, attacks on villages and mission houses, and the movement of naval and military forces as the situation worsens. The author states that the aim is to record events as they occurred and avoid prejudice.
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