Back to East Asia History Sourcebook | Halsall History Web Sites Page | East Asian History Sourcebook: John W. Foster: The Chinese Boycott, from The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 THE Chinese boycott of American goods is a striking evidence of an awakening spirit of resentment in the great Empire against the injustice and aggression of foreign countries. It seems singular that its first ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900 HERE we are at the gates, the double triple gates, deep as tunnels, and formed of the most powerful masonry---gates surmounted by deadly dungeons, each one five stories high, with strange curved roofs---extravagant dungeons, colossal black things above a black inclosing wall. Our ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Yao Chen-Yuan: My Adventures During the Boxer War, 1900 WHEN the letters of the various ministers had been committed to my care, I returned to Su Wang Fu, saying to myself, How shall I ever be able to take these letters to Tientsin I breathed a simple prayer to God to give me some method by which I might reach my destination in ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900 Fei Ch'i-hao was a Chinese Christian. Here he recounts the activities of the millenialist Boxers in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. IV THE GATHERING OF THE STORM The people of Shansi are naturally timid and gentle, not given to making disturbances, being the most peaceable people in China. So our ...