China and Christianity; the missionary movement and the growth of Chinese antiforeignism, 1860-1870 / Paul A. Cohen.
Based on thesis, Harvard University.
Bibliography: p. 349-373.
Includes index.

Keywords: Anti-Christian tradition in Chinese thought--China, Christianity, and the Foreign Powers in 1860--Gentry opposition to Christianity--Official opposition to Christianity--Missionary's abuse of position--Chinese proposals for the regulation of missionary activities--Offical accommodation of the foreign missionary--France, Britain, and the missionary problem--Tientsin (Tianjin) catastrophe--Chinese xenophobia and the foreign missionary--Appendices: Incidents mentioned in text, 1861-1870, Origin of the Pi-hsieh chi-shih. Glossary of Chinese names of missionaries, Names, Terms, Titles ; Pixie jishi 辟邪紀實 ; Pixie shilu 辟邪實錄
***Graphic resource for 19th century anti-Christian cartoons.

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History in three keys : the boxers as event, experience, and myth / Paul A. Cohen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-413) and index.

Historical reconstruction is in constant tension with two other more pervasive and influential ways of "knowing" the past - experience and myth. In this long-awaited book, Paul Cohen uses the Boxer uprising of 1898-1900 - a major antiforeign explosion and watershed event in Chinese history - as a vehicle for the skillful illumination of these tensions.

History in Three Keys juxtaposes the accounts of historians with those of participants and witnesses and sets these perspectives against the range of popular myths that were fashioned about the Boxers. The first part of the book tells the story of the Boxer uprising as reconstructed by historians. Part Two explores the thought, feelings, and behavior of the direct participants in the Boxer experience, individuals who, without a preconceived idea of the entire event, understood what was happening to them in a manner fundamentally different from historians. Finally, in Part Three, Cohen examines the myths surrounding the uprising in twentieth-century China - and, to a lesser extent, the West - as symbolic representations designed less to elucidate the Boxer past than to draw energy from it in the present.

The Boxer uprising : a narrative history -- Drought and the foreign presence -- Mass spirit possession -- Magic and female pollution -- Rumor and rumor panic -- Death -- The new culture movement and the Boxers -- Anti-imperialism and the recasting of the Boxer myth -- The cultural revolution and the Boxers.