The Boxer Uprising a background study

A study of the Boxer Uprising of 1900, giving background on the China of the 19th-century, studying its government, armed forces and society, foreign relations, and attempts at reform, and then moving on to the Uprising itself, with analysis of the origins and beliefs of the Boxers against the background both of Chinese society and of the Western World; bookshop label to front pastedown, former owner’s name to fep, endpapers/prelims/text block foxed, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper rubbed/foxed, clipped top and bottom corners of front flap, o.w. Good.