China vs. 8 Nation Alliance - Boxer Uprising

This video gives a longer introduction to the Boxer Uprising (1899-1901) that lead to declaration of war by the Chinese against the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Russia, France , Austro-Hungary and Italy. This podcast is hosted by Justin Pyke and the guest is phd canidate Joe Foneseca, who is writing his phd on the Boxer Uprising.
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00:53 - Why Uprising not Rebellion?
12:03 - Source Situation
13:03 - Myths & Tactics
18:01 - Prelude: Chinese vs. Chinese
24:44 - Military Forces: The Boxers
27:18 - Military Forces: The Chinese
31:57 - Military Forces: "Foreigners" (Europeans, Americans & Japanese)
58:58 - The First Expedition
1:07:33 - Taking the Fort
1:09:10 - The Second Expedition
1:37:48 - The Aftermath
1:38:59 - Treaty Signing
» SOURCES «
Selected Primary Sources:
Brown, Frederick. From Tientsin to Peking with the Allied Forces. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902.
Giles, Lancelot. The Siege of the Peking Legations: A Diary by Lancelot Giles. L. R. Marchant Ed. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1970.
Hooker, Mary. Behind the Scenes in Peking: Being the Experiences During the Siege of the Legations. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. 1910; Internet Archive, 2008. archive.org/details/cu3192402....
Landor, Arnold Henry Savage. China and the Allies. London: W. Heinemann, 1901.
MacDonald, Claude A. “The Japanese Detachment During the Defense of the Peking Legations, 1900,” in Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society London. Henri L. Joly, Ed. Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1971.
Martin, William A. P. The Siege in Peking: China Against the World. London: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1900.
Steel, Richard A. Though Peking’s Sewer: Relief of the Boxer Siege, 1900-1901. George W. Carrington Ed. New York: Vantage Press, 1985.
Secondary Sources:
Bickers, Robert and R.G. Tiedemann, The Boxers, China, and the World. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007.
Cohen, Paul. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. Columbia University Press, 1998.
Esherick, Joseph. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Hosoya, Chihiro and Ian Nish Eds. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000: Volume II: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1931-2000. Ian Nish and Yoichi Kibata Eds., London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 2000.
---. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000: Volume III: The Military Dimension. Ian Gow and Yoichi Hirama Eds., London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 2000.
Silbey, David. The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China. New York: Hill and Wang, 2012.
Otsuka, Umio. “Coalition Coordination during the Boxer Rebellion: How Twenty-Seven “Councils of Senior Naval Commanders” Contributed to the Conduct of Operations,” Naval War College Review: Vol. 71: No.4. (2018) digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc...
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