Fists of Righteous Harmony

[Lt.Col. Kilgore]

I'm sure most know of the Boxer Rebellion where in anno 1900 a group of Chineses 'rebels' took it upon themselves to attack somtimes fatally foreigners and Christian missionaries.
I'm wondering how many of you believe this is correct and further how many believe that this rebellion had any inpact on Chinese sovereignity. I personally see the rebellion as good. I view Christianity in the cultural aspect and not as 'the True Way' or some such bullocks and it should only be argued as a cultural component since I don't care if you've 'found' god.
Basically what I'm getting at is I believe China to have the strongest culture out of any peoples. Its not necassarily my favourite, nor am I that 'pro-Chinese'. I just commend them that they were never Christianised. No one else save the Eastern Asians can say that. And when I say Christian I also loosely mean Islam and Judaism as well.
So what do you think of the Boxer rebellion and China's uncompromising stance on foreign invasion (which is what I believe the western powers did to China in the 19th century.) ? Personally I commend them since most Missionaries and western Merchants used tactics much more brutal than the Boxers did.

 

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

This is another argument waiting to happen.

If you want to discuss this topic, rephrase your statements into a less argumentative tone.

Personally I commend them since most Missionaries and western Merchants used tactics much more brutal than the Boxers did.

This statement shows you have not studied heavily into this topic, and will only infalme people.
Please refrain from this, I have no problem with you believeing in China or it's culture, but supporting killing of any kind, I simply will not have this kind of argument on this board again.

I'm not supporting the west's rape of China in the 19th and early 20th century, but to blame it on missionairies and to say you are glad they were slaughtered is unacceptable behavior here.
That constitues hatred and bigotry, and WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.

Boxers sluaghtered several thousand missionaries and Chinese Christians, often by brutal torture.

The brutality of the boxers might be related to something far worse then the Boxer rebellion, the Tai-Ping Rebellion:

http://www.wfu.edu/Academic-departments/History/whistory/timeline/seasia/Taiping_1850.htm

This rebellion (the boxers) helped end the reign of the Manchus, and the reign of emperors in general in China, closing out thousands of years of Chinese culture, and leads to violent upheaval, first in the form of brutal warlords, then Chang's corrupt nationalists, then Imperial Japan, and finally Mao's communists.

Only now is China recovering from all this.