Joseph Esherick is Professor of History, University of Oregon, and author of Reform and Revolution in China: The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei (California, 1976).
"One of the most stimulating scholarly works of the past decade in
Chinese historical studies. It sets high standards of research,
analysis and interpretation. Moreover, it will remain for many
years not only the standard work on the first part of the Boxer
movement, but a model of careful, convincing yet dramatically
revisionist history."
*American Historical Review*
"With this outstanding volume, Joseph Esherick has repaired one of
the most glaring omissions in the scholarly canon. . . . [A] solid
and provocative inquiry into this critically important event."
*Journal of Asian History*
"A superbly researched book. . . . Not only do we get the Chinese
(and Boxer) side of the story for the first time, we also get a
much more complex view of the relations between the foreign powers,
the missionaries and the Chinese court during the last years of the
19th century."
*International History Review*
"Joseph Esherick has succeeded . . . in both describing and
analyzing the Boxer movement in a much more complete and
satisfactory manner than anyone else."
*The Historian*
"A fine example of Chinese provincial history as well as a timely
attempt to rethink some of the issues underlying the 1911
revolution."
*History*
"A challenging revisionist account which provides the most
satisfactory insight into the nature of the Boxer phenomenon
currently available in the West."
*Times Higher Education*
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