Boxer Rebellion

• Opium War (1839–1842)

• Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)

• Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901)

This series of events is most closely associated with the

• spread of communism to China and Korea

• growing concerns about the influence of the West in China

• alliance formed between Vietnam and China

• increasing expansion of civil and political rights in China

… Since the beginning of China as a nation, we Chinese have governed our own country despite occasional interruptions. When China was occasionally occupied by a foreign race, our ancestors could always in the end drive these foreigners out, restore the fatherland, and preserve China for future generations of Chinese. Today when we raise the righteous standard of revolt in order to expel an alien race [the Manchus] that has been occupying China, we are doing no more than our ancestors have done or expected us to do. Justice is so much on our side that all Chinese, once familiarizing themselves with our stand, will have no doubt about the righteousness of our cause.…

— “A Public Declaration,” 1906

A similarity between the Sepoy Rebellion in India and the Boxer Rebellion in China is that both were

• attempts to remove foreign influence

• movements to establish communist governments

• efforts to restore trade monopolies

• struggles to westernize cultures

The Sepoy Mutiny in India and the Boxer Rebellion in China were responses to

• Mongol invasions

• European imperialism

• Japanese aggression

• African slave trading