Some Did It for Civilization, Some Did It for Their country: A Revised View of the Boxer War. By Jane E. Elliott. [Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. xliii+610pp. US$39.00. ISBN 962–201–973–0.]

In: The China quarterly, Band 173, S. 214-251

Abstract

Jane Elliott presents a strongly revisionist thesis about the Boxer War of 1900 embedded in a labyrinthine book. Her main topic is the war waged by eight foreign powers against the Boxers in 1900, but the book contains byways where Elliott beckons readers to follow through discussions of images of warfare that are tangential to this main thesis.