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Women In The Boxer Rebellion
The role of women in the Boxer Rebellion in Nineteenth Century China has been overlooked
In 19th Century Peking, militants laid seige to foreign diplomats and Christian converts in the Boxer Rebellion. But what was the effect of this on the women involved, whose roles are not well documented?
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