The Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion

China after the Opium Wars

• The once powerful Qing dynasty was very weak

• Chinese felt humiliated

• Other nations had international control of China

China after the Opium Wars

• Chinese were distrustful of foreigners

• Many missionaries in China

Multiple Choice

How did many Chinese feel after the Opium Wars?

• proud and content

• defeated and distrustful

Multiple Choice

The foreigners who came to China to teach them about Christianity were called

• absolutists

• emperors

• missionaries

The Boxers

• The "Boxers" is a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan - “Righteous and Harmonious Fists”.

• The group practiced certain boxing and callisthenic rituals in the belief that this made them invulnerable, including bullet proof

Multiple Choice

The Boxers were

• Chinese Nationalists

• Missionaries

• Imperialists

Boxer Mission #1 - anti-Christianity

• The Boxers believed in a mix of Buddhist and Confucianist ideas

• They believed Christianity was ruining Chinese society so they began a campaign of terror by killing Christian missionaries in 1899

Multiple Choice

The Boxers were anti-imperialist, anti-foreign and

• anti-Buddhist

• anti-Christian

• anti-Confucius

Mission #2 - anti-foreign

• In 1900, Boxers kill French and Belgian railway engineers and a Japanese representative in China.

• Although a "peasant uprising", the Qing government supported this effort

Response to the Rebellion

• Foreign countries who had "spheres of influence' in China sent troops to stop the rebellion

• This group was called the Eight Nation Alliance

This photo shows representatives from each: Left to right:

Britain, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan

Multiple Choice

Why did soldiers from all of these nations join together to combat the Boxers?

• To help the Chinese

• To protect Cultural Heritage

• To keep their Spheres of Influence

Defeated

• The US and other European powers defeated the Boxers

• Anti-foreign feelings increased in China

Sepoy Rebellion in India

• In 1857 the Sepoys (Indians) rebelled against the British imperialist

• These Hindu and Muslim troops were defeated

• This defeat helped fuel anti-foreign feelings in India

Multiple Choice

The defeat of the Sepoy Rebellion in India and Boxer Rebellion in China increased bad feelings towards

• Foreigners

• Hindus and Muslims

• Buddhist and Confucianist

Ramifications (Results)

• The Chinese see this defeat as a need to organize and win the next time

• They see hope that foreigners can be defeated in the future

• Like India, China will eventually have a successful revolution and remove imperialist powers

Multiple Choice

China and India learned from their failed rebellions and overthrow the imperialist powers in the future.

• true

• false