Essay On Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Uprising of 1898-1900 , is a peasant movement which was doomed to fail from its conception primarily due to its divided and leaderless structure, was a reaction to a series of factors, most of the factors were caused by western imperialsm and Japanese imperialism and the weak and again also caused by divided Qing government. One of the most important factors for this rebellion was arguably the western religious influence in china. The rebells as the western called the rebels the boxers because they performed physical that the rebels / boxers believe can make them withstand to bullets, the rebels killed chinese chritians and destroy foreign property. Even though the boxer rebellion did not really change the chinese political in a great way. The boxer rebellion can make the chinese government overwhelming and make some problems to the chinese government The Boxer Uprising, an anti-foreigner movement, had developed in northwest Shandong between 1898-1900, as a response to the provocations of Western missionaries and their Chinese converts. Most of the Chinese population was not interested in the Christian message, especially in the evangelical and intolerant form that many of the Western missionaries were preaching. The Boxers were mainly peasants, who believed that their magic martial arts training made their bodies invulnerable to modern guns. With this belief, they viciously attacked Christian missionaries and converts, calling for the ending of the special privileges enjoyed by Chinese converts. The Dowager Empress Cixi, frustrated with the growing demands from the West, decided to support the Boxers against the foreign powers, which only invited a military suppression by an Eight-Nation Alliance in August 1900. The army, consisting of soldiers from Japan, Russia, Britain, the USA and France, managed to suppress the Boxers and drove Cixi and Emperor Guangxu to the West. By 1900 the Boxers had many powerful sympathizers in the Chinese court although little official recognition. Their most notable supporter was the Dowager Empress Tzu His. China was at this time very vulnerable, struggling to bring an almost feudal society into …show more content…
The rebellion, along with some ensuing problems regarding to the European nations caused downfall of the dynasty. Then the people of republic of china emerged, it is the government now, thanks to the boxer rebellion, missionaries has stop coming to china, and the west and many great powershas stop trying to colonize the country aswell.
The Boxer Rebellion formally ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol on September 7, 1901. By terms of the agreement, forts protecting Beijing were to be destroyed, Boxer and Chinese government officials involved in the uprising were to be punished, foreign legations were permitted to station troops in Beijing for their defense, China was prohibited from importing arms for two years and it agreed to pay more than $330 million in reparations to the foreign nations involved.
Even though the boxer rebellion did not really change the chinese political in a great way. The boxer rebellion can make the chinese government overwhelming and make some problems to the chinese government. The examples from the problems are in economically, china stalled because of the hefty amount of money it had to part with as indemnity for all losses incurred during the uprising, in political it hastened the process for reforms and revolution through overthrowing of the Qing government that was unable to rule China