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INTL 190 - Haiti in a Transnational ContextMain MenuIntroductionHaiti and ChinaHaiti and ChinaHaiti & ChileHaiti and the BahamasHaiti and TaiwanAmy B., Dephny D., Mitchell S., Barbara W.Haiti and Brazil
Eight-Nation Alliance
12022-03-06T02:32:05-08:00Yufeng Zhou0591af02856cbcbf46321ab6b8bde10ea6cb16533997731-2-4plain2022-03-06T17:56:01-08:00Yufeng Zhou0591af02856cbcbf46321ab6b8bde10ea6cb1653The Boxers, an extremist patriotic group in China, were determined to erase foreign influence from China. According to Britannica, sometime in the fall of 1899, the slogan "Support the Qing Dynasty and destroy foreigners" appeared. By May 1900, the Qing government secretly supported the Boxers, and Cixi believed that the Boxers were reliable. Finally, she called on all Chinese to attack foreigners. On June 20, boxers launched an eight-week siege of the foreign legations in Beijing. According to Michael Dillon in Encyclopedia of Chinese History, 1900, Cixi's extreme patriotism and xenophobia eventually led to the invasion of China by the Eight-power Allied Forces (124). The purpose of the eight invasions was to relieve the foreign legations besieged by the Boxers. China signed the Xin-chou Treaty after the eight-power allied invasion. According to Charles O. Hucker on Britannica, China paid 450 million taels of silver to eight countries and gave up its military in southern China.
According to Rare Historical Photos, the photograph showed soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900. They are (left-to-right): Britain, United States, Australia, British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Japan. ______ Back to China's History