LibGuides: Primary Sources: China: Boxer Rebellion

Online Sources: Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion observations by future First Lady, Lou Henry Hoover
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Boxer Rebellion observations by future First Lady, Lou Henry Hoover, 8/8/1900 - National Archives
CHINA IN FEAR OF WRATH OF POWERS
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12 July 1900: 1
MISSIONARIES IN PERIL
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28 June 1900: 2
Missionary Murdered in China
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(1900, Jan 05). New York Times
MORE AWFUL DETAILS OF PEKING MASSACRE
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20 July 1900: 2
Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900
A Prisoner in Peking'
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The Outlook vol. 66, November 10, 1900 page 641
STILL NO DETAILS OF ENVOYS' FATE
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15 July 1900: 1
Yao Chen-Yuan: My Adventures During the Boxer War, 1900

Book Sources: Boxer Rebellion

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Beleaguered in Peking by Robert Coltman
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The China Martyrs of 1900 by Robert Coventry Forsyth
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
Correspondence respecting the insurrectionary movement in China by Great Britain
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

resented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, July 1900.
From Tientsin to Peking with the Allied Forces by Frederick Brown
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The heart of Pekin by Alphonse Favier,
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

: Bishop A. Favier's diary of the siege, May-August, 1900
Ordered to China; Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin by Wilbur J. Chamberlin
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive

Written from China while under commission from the New York Sun during the Boxer uprising of 1900 and the international complications which followed (1903)
A Plea for Justice to China by Chas. M. Higgins
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

An explanation of the "Chinese puzzle" and a criticism of our diplomacy. An open letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle
Political History of America's Wars by Alan Axelrod
Call Number: E181 .A945 2007

ISBN: 156802956X
Report of William W. Rockhill by William W. Rockhill
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

late commissioner to China, with accompanying documents
The Siege of the Peking Embassy, 1900: Sir Claude MacDonald's report on the Boxer Rebellion by Tim Coates
Call Number: DS770 .S54 2000

ISBN: 0117024562
The Story of the Siege in Peking by S.M. Russell
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Twentieth Century China: A History in Documents by R. Keith Schoppa
Call Number: DS773.89 S36 2011

ISBN: 0199732019
Two heroes of Cathay, an autobiography and a sketch by Luella Miner
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

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