What did the Boxer Rebellion indicate most clearly?
1 Answer
Aug 1, 2016
That the Chinese people were tired of foreign influence
Explanation:
The Boxer Rebellion was the Dowager Empress's method to remove the foreign presence.
The 'boxers' were the ordinary Chinese people (peasants, laborers, unemployed) to attack the Western foreigners so the Empress did not have to commit herself and claim that she was out of control of the people. They were called 'boxers' by the westerners because they did Kung Fu and other martial arts.
The Boxer Rebellion was not against the Chinese government. It was against the foreign occupation of Peking and other parts of China. The Dowager Empress used the method of not committing your main forces and to use your 'people' first.
