HISTORY Vault: China's Boxer Rebellion In 1900, in what became known as the Boxer Rebellion, a Chinese secret organization led an uprising in northern China against the spread of outside influences there. Was Western greed at the root of the rebellion or was it an elaborate hoax?
Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising (1900) that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. ‘Boxers’ was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (‘Righteous and Harmonious Fists’). Learn more