Boxers: A Narrative History 1890s-1900, numerous anti-foreign/anti-Christian events and uprisings, secret societies, Big Sword Society in 1895 Treaties and missionary movements Boxers" -"boxing and deep-breathing exercises (qigong) practice of mass spirit possession, invulnerability Yihe Quan, and others(Plum Flower, Red, Monkey, spirit, etc Geography: Zhili and shandong provinces, later expanded to the North China Plain map p 37 People: unemployed soldiers, peasants who lost crops to drought or floods Slogan: Support the Qing, destroy the foreign, anti-foreign movements(flag p. 26) Qing government/Empress Cixi's attitude?Boxers: A Narrative History • 1890s-1900, numerous anti-foreign/anti-Christian events and uprisings, secret societies, Big Sword Society in 1895 • Treaties and missionary movements • “Boxers”– “boxing” and deep-breathing exercises (qigong) - practice of mass spirit possession, invulnerability. • Yihe Quan, and others (Plum Flower, Red, Monkey, spirit, etc.) • Geography: Zhili and Shandong provinces, later expanded to the North China Plain (Map p.37) • People: unemployed soldiers, peasants who lost crops to drought or floods. • Slogan: Support the Qing, destroy the foreign, anti-foreign movements (flag p. 26) • Qing government / Empress Cixi’s attitude?