Record details

• ISBN: 0802713610
• ISBN: 9780802713612
• ISBN: 0425180840
• ISBN: 9780425180846
• Physical Description: xxvii, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
• Publisher: New York : Walker, 2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"First published, in somewhat different form, as Besieged in Peking in Great Britain in 1999 by Constable and Company, Ltd."--title page verso.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-408) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Poison in the Well: China on the Eve of the Boxer Rebellion -- 1. A Thousand Deaths 3 -- 2. Boxers and Devils 22 -- 3. Approaching Hour 33 -- 4. Rats in a Trap 51 -- 5. "Sha! Sha!" 66 -- II. "Death and Destruction to the Foreigner!" 20 June-21 July 1900 -- 6. A Failed Rescue 89 -- 7. City of Mud and Fire 105 -- 8. Behind the Tartar Wall 124 -- 9. Drifting Horror 146 -- 10. Darkest Night 165 -- III. War and Watermelons: 21 July-14 August 1900 -- 11. A Truce and a Triumph 177 -- 12. Half-Armistice 190 -- 13. Horsemeat and Hope 213 -- 14. In through the Sluice Gate 233 -- IV. Murder, Rape, and Exile: Scenes from the Boxer Summer -- 15. "Tour of Inspection" 253 -- 16. Island of the Peitang 262 -- 17. Faith and Fate of the Missionaries 275 -- 18. Spoils of Peking 283 -- V. Another Country? China in the Wake of the Boxer Rebellion -- 19. Treaty 299 -- 20. Court Returns 312 -- 21. ... And the Foreigner Departs 320 -- 22. Boxer Legacy 335.

Target Audience Note:

1230L Lexile

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China > History > Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901.