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The Cult Dossier · No. 136 · Apocalyptic / Doomsday
Boxers
Yihequan; Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists
1898 – 1901 · Shandong, Zhili and Beijing, China
XIII. FILLING THE GAPS — ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
Fully religious — spirit-possession martial movement
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1898 Movement grows in Shandong amid drought, flooding of the Yellow River and resentment of foreign missionary privilege.
- 20 JUNE – 14 AUGUST 1900 Cixi declares support and THE SIEGE OF THE LEGATIONS begins, lasting 55 days. Inside are some 473 foreign civilians, 409 soldiers and sailors from eight countries, and about 3,000 Chinese Christians.
- 1900 MORE THAN 32,000 CHINESE CHRISTIANS ARE KILLED — the great majority Catholic, with over 1,000 Protestants among them. 188 Western Protestant missionaries die, within a total of roughly 200–250 foreign nationals. ALMOST 200 CHINESE CHRISTIANS WERE KILLED FOR EVERY FOREIGN MISSIONARY, a proportion almost entirely absent from the Western accounts of the rising.
- August 1900 The Eight-Nation Alliance takes Beijing and conducts widespread looting, rape and reprisal killings.
- 7 SEPTEMBER 1901 THE BOXER PROTOCOL, signed between China and ELEVEN powers, imposes an indemnity of 450 MILLION TAELS OF SILVER — roughly 333 million US dollars in contemporary gold terms — secured against China's tariff income and salt tax and payable over THIRTY-NINE YEARS at 4 PER CENT ANNUAL INTEREST. With interest the total would have reached ABOUT 982 MILLION TAELS by maturity, more than doubling the principal.
- 1901 THE SUM WAS CHOSEN AS A STATEMENT. 450 million taels matched the estimated Chinese population of the time — ONE TAEL FOR EVERY PERSON IN CHINA. It was apportioned among the eight intervening powers largely in proportion to troop contributions and claimed damages.
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