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What does Boxer Rebellion mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1899 and 1901.
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During the Boxer Rebellion in China, for instance, there were Americans in Peking who would gladly have given half of their fortune for the use of a pair of wires to New York.
At times xenophobia, whether spontaneous or, as in the case of the Boxer Rebellion, staged by the authorities, was directed against all foreigners in general, irrespective of their nationality.
It is also full of his compassion for the victims of the Boxer Rebellion, traces of which he found throughout the country.
Once the Boxer Rebellion ignites, the friendship is threatened both by an incipient Communist movement and by the novel's romantic fiddle-faddle.
After the Boxer Rebellion, 100,000 Russian soldiers were stationed in Manchuria.
The unrest in Asia caused by the Opium War, the Boxer Rebellion and subsequent peasant rebellions prompted many impoverished Chinese people to seek new opportunities in North America.

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