The Real 55 Days in Peking: The Boxer Rebellion
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New Vid :)
We'll see the problem is you don't have a fleet
We support you!!!
The channel is just not a good enough boxer
The Boxer Rebellion is amazing to think about, looking back at it. 7 nations, most of which are enemies, united in the effort to defeat this threat to the Qing. Then 15 years later, all 7 of these nations would fight one another.
4 years later, two of those nations would go to war, with one resulting in a humiliating defeat. Heck, even of the nations tried to broker peace between the two.
U literally commented this before watching the video but ok
Sigma move 🥱🔥
Colonisators won again
They also went to war with the Qing after it was revealed that they were supporting the Boxers.
It was also the 8 Nation Alliance, though there were troops from around 11 different ones overall.
Italy 1899: "I was supposed to have a fleet?!!"
Italy 1943: "I was supposed to have tanks?!! "
Well, Rommel left them
Italy 1899: "I was supposed to have a fleet?!!"
China 1899: "How on Earth do you want to play on gunboat diplomacy when you have no gunboats?"
😆😆😆
@@CoolMan0901Rommel is easily one of the most overrated generals of WW2
@@CipiRipi-in7df Austria-Hungary: "Italy, did you not seriously learn after the Battle of Lissa?"
@@imgvillasrc1608 ... Austro-Hungary: "(sighs) Some folks never learn..." 😕😕
Glad to see that there was no period in conflict where a Japanese soldier didn’t kill himself in honour of the emperor.
And they still continue to this day (look up japanese suicide rates)
Idk whats up with that
Akhem (battle of tienshin) akhem
Yeah, but back then it was actually impressive and brave rather than cruel and pointless.
Since 1945
@@Tom_Cruise_Missile yeah, as it was actually for a purpose to help his comrades instead of spiting the enemy.
The Relief of Peking was the biggest "Me and the Boys" moment in history.
Me and the boys dabbing on some Manchus.
Backs against the wall, the whole country against them, and the only ones they have are one another. Yeah "The boys" stand together while more bros come to their rescue.
It's a bit comical seeing you at the top of comments here and the Low Effort Clips channel, good sir.
@@Pan_Z My interests are many and varied.
Including both history and cute anime women.
o7
@@KageMinowaraup to this point in history because desert storm hasn’t happened yet
"But I have yet to meet someone who can outsmart bullet"
Some people think they can out smart me
@@KathleenStewart-lu5ni Maybe, maybe.
@@chrisyotas5854but i've yet to meet one who can outsmart bullet.
VIDS??? MY BUDDY I FOUND YOU??
@@HerrnChaos2341 Sup Herrn
The most impressive part is not the 7 nation invading
But Chinese empress declaring war on the 7 strongest nation in the world at once .
Forget the opium crisis in China at the time, that empress was high on some industrial grade copium to think attacking every GP at the same time with stone age fanatics was a good idea...
All because Italy didn't understand that you needed gun boats in gun boat diplomacy
Chinese aunties truly most the dangerous animals in China.
@@kameronjones7139 and China didn’t understand diplomacy at all if you get the full picture Not just the simplified Video. Still good resume but to Frame Like it was Italy’s fault it’s Crazy. Italy was a Minor Player in all of this if anything it’s Britain fault
@marcobelli6856 I know I was just making an Italian joke. China got way to arrogant for its own good
This was the greatest team up since the Napoleonic Wars.
Exactly, was about to say that...basically Battle of the Nations 2.0
it's great if things were toe to toe, but the boxers and the imperial army was too inept, the boxers left the battle to farm? what a joke
I think the correct word is Gang Up
The OG Coalition
@@hawx00145 the battle of the nations actually was uncertain until the final stage. Napoleonic France could take on the huge coalition (they did it number of times before). The dying Qing dynasty ? Not so much. The only question was if they could reach Peking in time to rescue the besieged.
Boxer 1: I am Immune to bullets!
*Gets Shot and Dies*
Boxer 2: You see guys, he didn't die because we aren't bullet proof, he clearly died due to suffering a Skill Issue.
Boxer 3: Man what a NOOB.
Boxer 5: I told him to train harder!
the biggest "Git Gud" ever
A fun fact about the American captain Myers who led the assault on the tartar wall is that his dad Abraham Myers is who the city of Fort Myers in Florida is named after, which is also what the tartar wall was re-named.
Both capt. Myers & Smedley Butler were U.S. Marines.
@@donaldsmith6814 yep!
@@donaldsmith6814 dont forget Daniel Daly
Great point.@@panzerplays5959
@@panzerplays5959 Come on you SOBs you wanna live forever! -Dan Daly
*The year was 1900, 'tis worth remembering
The men who lived through 55 days at Peking
T'was called the Boxers Insurrection of bloody oriental war
Against all nations of the diplomatic core*
The flags of France and Britain, how they fluttered in the breeze
The Italian and the Russian, and the flag of the Japanese
Then came the sound of bugles, the rolling drums of doom
And the streets of Peking, were as empty as a tomb
They stormed the french legation
They attacked with shot and shell.
And they came in blood red blouses
Screaming shashow as they fell
The drums have long been muffled
The bugles cease to ring
But through the ages, you can hear them echoing
IM JAHRE 1900, DA RIEF DER TROMMELKLANG
DIE WELT NACH PEKING, 55 TAGE LANG
Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom
Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom
Boom-boom, boom, boom-boom
55 days at Peking
The biggest tragedy is not just the lost of lives but also destruction of the library.... It's like the destruction of the Akexandrian Library. Small yes, but valuable.
You may wish to watch the video "The boring truth about the Library of Alexandria" here on TH-cam. The library wasn't the enormous loss of knowledge it's reputed to be, as the library had been declining for over a century by the time of Caesar.
@@Pan_Z pretty sure the comment a joke about just that
@@Pan_ZAbsolutely correct. I'm so tired of people bringing it up.
@@Pan_Z Even if it was in decline there were probably quite a few pieces of information that weren't stored anywhere else. Every loss of information is lamentable. Well, almost. There's some things it would be better to forget but sometimes those persist the longest.
@@kaltaron1284 The most valuable knowleage were in the head of the many scholars who left for more mantain libraries ,sm unique knowleadge probable some valuable knowleadge lost not a chance .
Got to say I've enjoyed this series of the Qing Empire. It's especially helpful that I had a class on the subject recently, so thank you a bunch. Great videos. Please keep up the awesome content!
Took the words out of my mouth.
@@nathanseper8738I actually genuinely agree with you
Shows that China have always been xenophobic
If you want to read a neutral first hand account of the Boxer rebellion, you can read "Thirteen Months in China" by Thakur Gadadhar Singh, an Indian sepoy. You can also read "Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary" by Prince Amar Singh who mentioned about his time as a soldier during the rebellion.
Thank you
👍
Nice!
I'm not sure I would count an Indian as neutral as they were part of the British Empire but it might be less susceptible to bias.
@@kaltaron1284 true
Props for using "55 Tage in Peking" the German version of the "55 days at Peking". It's easily the best version in my opinion. Maybe it's because German makes anything sound serious and weighty, while the other versions have that campy feel I just can't shake, the German rendition sounds like an actual military hymn or marching song.
The German version is also far less chipper and mocking in the text, it doesn’t even really describe the conflict, it‘s just a recollection of the death and destruction that befell everyone there. I find this not only poignant, but also very respectful, since it acknowledges how terrible this war was for everyone, not just the germans. It’s basically a lament of even having to go to war in the first place, and an honoring of everyone who died for their country. This is why I love my countries‘ soldier songs, and why I hate that so many of them turn out to be made by Nazis.
@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095I agree with that. I kinda prefer the English rhythm, but curiously enough the German version is more respectful indeed. Still, it doesn’t hurt to hear your great-great grandpa sing “we kicked their arse”😂
@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095 remember the nazis stole anything of value they ever had, and assume one didn't actually write it :)
@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095 the original nazis supported china actually, especially ernst rolms clique and strasser. almost all of chinas guns and heavy machinery came from germany, germany siding with japan was a massive betrayal and the kmt was heartbroken by it especially.
@@motianton hitlers nazis' the original nazis were very different, most of them were betrayed and killed in the night of the long knives, hitlers clique were actually a bunch of bandits that parasitized the original national socialists workers party
Moral of the story. Don’t base international decisions on Italy, because they aren’t a standard.
Moral of the Story: DON'T STOP THE IMPORTATION OF OPIUM INTO CHINA!!!
Not using a fleet to “convince” another Country to give “concessions” is synonymous of respecting that country by my opinion.
The opposite, diplomatically italy has always been the best country usually
@@user-uf5nv5cb3bI agree
@@papayetto3700Greece has entered the chat
Glad to see more videos on the Boxer Rebellion, and from you no less! Thank you!
A real “me and the boys” moment in world history.
Kung-fu vs. Gun-fu
Its a bold strategy cotton lets see how it works out for them.
If only the emperor succeeded in his reforms its interesting to think about what China would be like if the Qing had succeeded in modernizing
True
Honestly it wasn’t the lack of modernization on the part of the Qing. Quite frankly it was weakness of the Qing themselves and the disloyalty of their vassals.
You don’t explode into waring states from a lack of reform. Typically in that situation a nation explodes into a two sided civil war between the current establishment and a coalition of the various anti-establishment factions who proceed to sort out their grievances later. This is typically because the central government retains enough power to crush them all individually.
To get waring states requires a weak central authority allowing its local governments to grow their own power and autonomy before staging an open revolt. The central authority then calls in its other local governments who rebel in turn as the whole thing then explodes. The central authority is then rendered impotent as the various waring factions all claim to be the legitimate inheritors of the central governments power.
To be idealistic if the Qing had asked the western powers for help in modernizing it’s government, military, and industry in exchange for wealth in a similar vein to the Meiji restoration it might have worked.
It certainly would’ve been better than declaring war on _literally_ all of the worlds great powers for the sake of pride. Especially since that fight just ended up accelerating their collapse.
@@simonnachreiner8380 well for me i would blame on Empress Cui Xi and Reactionary she and other just mess up reform which would help Qing get off Clift of Collapse and Evidence Proved that Reform is dire need is already in front of them many time 2 time of Opium war and Sino-Japanese war which made Permanently lost their Navy but they still don't give a Shit
Hard to modernize when you're still feudal (and plenty of people keeping it that way) before the communists came up.
That moment when you’re so unlucky that all the great powers on earth unite to squash you
Dessert storm was a good sequel in my opinion
@@NP3GAthat was just one alliance bloc really
Even more insane since China declared war on all of them.
Typical EU4 coalition experience.
Classic Italian government moment, show up weak, and cause a massive global catastrophe
Es ist ein klassik
Hey it's not that easy when your nation was formed literally 40 years prior to that event...
@@waterwatereverywhere3574Germany was only formed in 1871 and they were already making the other European powers shit their pants with how powerful they were. So age isn’t an excuse.
@@gloverfox9135 "germany" as we know it, has always been relatively compact under the holy roman empire, sure there were a lot of micro kingdoms but they were all part of that confederation. Bismark just united them formally. Italy on the other hand has always been intrinsically devided (still is btw) and has been occupied by many other countries like the normans, the spanish, the austrian and the french. And finally, italy had very very few natural resources unlike germany with the Rhur vally...
It's sad when people make fun of italy, it's almost like making fun of a disable kid... oh well, i guess it can't be helped, sadly my nation peaked more than 2000 years ago.
@@waterwatereverywhere3574Bro Italy was their fault. Not entirely but a very good bunch. But Italy was far more richer than the micro states or the HRE most of the time. Tuscan, Venice, Genoa. Don't made up like Italy was totally innocent ant their lack of ability was always not their fault. They were involved in it partially.
the most based crossover in modern history.
Imperialism tends to do that (based)
Can it be considered modern history?
@@Snp2024it had guns with cased ammo and sanitation better than "we could make the god of decay wince", it's modern enough.
@@Snp2024this is generally considered modern period proper.
Actually late renaissance is early colonial times are often considered early modern or proto modern. This is secondary too what ever main period though. Like Victorian times would be considered earlyish modern too but not THE Modern era which is like 1900 until the information age/ maybe including the current information age, also maybe you considered the 1950s the atomic age. Idk many history books go by different systems. Like in their own book in time lines. I think basically it depends on what you mean. The modern era I think its offical near the start. A modern era, its definitely. Personally I have seen some like to consider the 1700s the start of truely early modern era because metal munition armor was still common. It still worked actually against bullets from range but guns got so much cheaper and quicker with flintlock systems you could buy 10 for the price of okay armour agaisnt bullets.
And everything before is proto modern.
So Napoleanic warfare was early modern for example but not modern warfare maybe idk it kinda confuses me. Basically my only advice is don't be strict on era definitions.
@@notapuma there is something so funny about seeing these incel adjacent people talk about imperialism as if they wouldn't be conquered lmao stfu you jsut were born in some midwest state you know nothing about the world.
I actually did a presentation of the Boxer rebellion for my final exams. Very interesting event.
IM SUPPOSED TO HAVE A FLEET!?!
😂
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A FLEET!!!! also, AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
My old army unit, the 9th infantry regiment fought there, and took its name the "Manchus" soon afterwards. We also acquired the silver to make our prized 90 lb solid silver punch bowl (the Lipscomb Bowl) after it was given to the unit as a gift from a prince after the unit had saved the mint.
so a war criminal regiment
@@extrastout1111 By saving the mint and handing it over to the legitimate government? Perhaps if you if you are full of extra stout.
@@extrastout1111
Shut it
It makes sense that the Japanese divisions won
As mentioned in the video they had the power of modern weapons and DETERMINATION
And they were the largest contingent as well.
Great video, I actually visited a museum in a former monastery earlier this year and part of their collection were the robes of one of their missionaries that died in the boxer rebellion.
So this is where you have all been for this entire month? Well, it was totally worth it...
YOOOOO!!! This is such an awesome video! So glad to see a classic channel make a video giving more history to such an interesting event. The German version of the song that you played at the start is my favorite, it’s such a banger!!! Awesome video!
- 10,000 social credit score.
29:58
That man better get a memorial for that shit he pulled
It was either my third or fourth time opening the app, and when I saw this, I started clapping and cheering like it was a football game. Ezekiel, thank you for creating this video.
Edit: 🥊
China: nothing can hold me back
*the seven nation army*
China: hold my second phase
@@BruhTNT4258 Yeah, and they will fail in that phase too 🙂
@@BruhTNT4258 modern day 8 nation army (vietnam,japan,america,philippines,taiwan,australia,india,indonesia), hold our beers
@@yuigahama3189Indonesia seems way more neutral then those others
@@yuigahama3189They're begging more countries for aid because they're scared of China alone being stronger.
🥊 The transitions are becoming cooler day by day.
It’s so funny to me that a bunch of British guys see these badass kung fu moves and are like “so it’s like boxing right close enough”
In our defense, no one told us that we were supposed to have a fleet.
To think that such a desperate united defense would mean nothing politically as the Russo-Japanase War and WW1 followed, breaking apart any notions of comradery built here.
But learning about such a standalone event where 7 nations at each other's throats join forces like they always were to hold out at Peking and to save those trapped there is very fun and interesting. This really is one of the greatest moments in modern history, and will forever be memorialized in every version of 55 Days at Peking sung throughout the modern world.
I don't think there was much comradery there as all these nations just wanted to protect their own interests in China. And a few years later their interests didn't align anymore.
Gotta love how the Botho-Lucas Chor made the German version of the song so much better that nobody uses the English version.
Oh my god you’re like the third person to ever mention the 55 days at Peking on TH-cam I saw one video of all the nations involved like the song and I was obsessed but there were no more videos thank you
I can only imagine the amount of mixed messages the Italians were getting, one moment they are assaulted by cannonballs and next they are given condolences and watermelons from the Qings
This was quite possibly the best animated documentary on the boxer rebellion I watched, its insane how I only just discovered this channel, please take my sub and I hope for more awesome videos like this.
Cixi try not to fuck up the stability and future sovereignty of China challenge: (impossible)
frrrrr “let’s build a marble boat guys”
She was ironically the one keeping it together, reason as to why she was the regent of China. If not for her a lot of famous military leaders and scholars would have overthrown the Qing.
@@user-pu4lv6pr5vgood
@@user-pu4lv6pr5v She did a very good job at keeping it together! I'm certain that China absolutely did not break down into civil war soon after, right?
@@EmperorProtects1 I hope you realize how fallacious your remark is.
Qing breaking after her death proves my point that she kept it together, lmao. Besides it was after Yuan Shikai that China fell into the hands of various warlords.
And Yuan Shikai did supported the coup because he knew he would be removed when the court had no longer use for him. Which may I remind you was after the death of Cixi.
She was not perfect, especially given the Boxer Rebellion debacle and the later Sino-Japanese War (cannot blame her fully for the latter given even Western experts were certain Qing would win with ease - indeed if conflict over Korea had started a few years prior Qing would most likely have won based on the journals of Takashima Kaemon who had close connection to Meiji officials and bureaucrats, and is famous for his divination practices that affirm the policy of Meiji Elite.)
The poor Chinese Christians who had been there since St Francis Xavier and the other 1500s missionary.
There was the Orthodox as well.
@arnowisp6244 yeah, sry I forgot they evangelize Manchuria
They said endgame was the most ambitious crossover
Man, I sure do love the story of the boxer rebellion, great video
Always happy to see another good video on history that you've made.
Every time I learn of a historical event, either from youtube, classes, or personal research, I am always curious as to how much hiatory could have changed if tony changes were made to it. How would it have changed if the 100 fays reform kept going and succeeded? How would it have gone if the chinese sent their whole force and decimated the delegations? I love to think of these and wonder how things could have changed, for better or for worse.
Already love the video
Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 ❤
The year was nineteen hundred tis worth remembering the men who lived through 55 days Peking
Such a bizzare and crazy time image running a D%D campain in this setting
Bluds really thought they where inmune to bullets 💀
fanatical madness. well if a boxer gets killed by physical harm then it was not a good boxer lol 😂 just madness
They were mostly rural farmers living in an unmodernized society in an age without the internet you can’t blame them for being so ignorant lol
Why do you make so much art. From black ukraine to Pekking, art. You've come so far! Educating us all and making these awesome vids🎉
Such an epic video! Thank you for making this! And MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🎁
I have been waiting for this one since the start of your Chinese History saga.
Respect to the japanese engineer who gave up his life for his comrades to enter the city
I am proud that my wonderful country, Japan, has been on a par with Western powers ever since.
'Peking' is what the British called Beijing because they couldn't pronounce it properly.
thanks for information
And to this day they still can't pronounce Tuesday
Peking is the Cantonese pronunciation of Beijing, which was the main Chinese variant spoken in British Hong Kong
Peking is the original name before Mao
I just call it Xigrad
You should do the Nanking Massacre next! I have a book of it written by Iris Chang, titled "The Rape of Nanking", which is probably the most detailed out there because her grandparents witnessed it all in Shanghai and Nanking and told her stories, while also travelling a lot to interview survivors of the Massacre. I'm sure you'll find it extremely interesting to work on.
55 Days at Peking was the truest Me and the Boys moment of the 20th Century
and also the first me and the boys moment lol
19th century actually
Poor Italy just wanted the Sanmen Bay but nobody of his friends told him that he needed a fleet.🇮🇹 9:23
Poor Italy learned nothing from her big brothers Great Britain, France, USA, or even her younger brothers Germany and Japan... How on Earth do you want to play the "gun boat diplomacy" game, when you have no gun boats? :P :P
@@CipiRipi-in7df Austria even demonstrated first hand to Italy during the Austro-Prussian War that they really need to upgrade their fleet, but didn't seem to learn from it. -_-
@@imgvillasrc1608 ...some folks never learn... 🤥🤥
Emmm the Regia Marina was one of the biggest and powerfull Navy in 1880-1900.....
The problem of italy was the poor international presence(bad italian politics, not so aggressive as UK, France etc)
@@CriscCiaddu .. no, it was not "one of the biggest and powerful Navy in 1880-1900"
They could go after Turkish Navy or Austro-Hungarian Navy, they could be a threat to French or British Mediterranean squadrons, but that's pretty much all they could muster.
They were far, far away from Royal Navy, American Navy, or even newly emerged Japanese Navy.
Only two battleships were built by Italians in 1880, and (being allies in Triple Alliance), in case of a joint action against France, the Italians agreed that Admiral Haus, the Austrian commander in chief should take command of the proposed joint fleet.
As some guy who studied rudimentary Chinese history in middle school in Chinese, it always tickles me how badass the Chinese name 義和拳 (Righteous and Harmonious Fists per wikipedia) is, and then the West just calls them "boxers" which I guess is really fitting seeing how funny the concept of some people trying to bring their fists to a gun fight while thinking they're invincible because they summoned gods to possess them is
Different idea concepts.
30:06 i have no words 💀
Poor Italy, the joke on their ability runs long and hard.
The animation in this video is a bit excessive
12:43
That dryed up china potatoe thing got me
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This really should have more views, absolutely incredible!
That was a very interesting comparation between qin China and Japan. Nice video.
Insanely underrated channel
omg a 46 minute video from ezekiel??
Christmas came a bit early this year!
Admirable dedication to using period-accurate Postal romanization.
Finally.. what we've all been waiting for
Funny how the Qing Government halfway through the siege called timeout before continuing at midnight
22:43 IS THAT THE KENSHI SOUNDTRACK?!
We Italians always declare war when we have not brought an army with us🗿
It came to my attention I had notifications off for this channel. That has been rectified. This is probably the my favorite history TH-cam channel
Got to say the delivery at 30:05 killed me lol💀
The one time they could all work together was for colonialism…
Among those international troops that battled the Boxers in those days, only Sargeant Major Dan Daly [private first class in that incident] (🇺🇸) has killed 200 more or less Boxers all by himself in the course of the night protecting civilians behind him, earning one of the USMC's first Medal Of Honor recipients..
Thank you for discussing the Sikh role! I was writing an academic paper for a journal years back on the Sikh role in the Boxer Rebellion, this video has definitely inspired me to pick it back up and continue!
And before anyone replies yes, I am more than aware of the use of Panjabi and Sikh sepoys as subjugated lesser colonial soldiers.
Why did you add the last bit 😭😭
@@philipshearer5286 I know, I wish it weren't true! But alas, some odd folk who believe they alone can speak on behalf of all cultures get mad when such stuff isn't mentioned.
This is one of my favorite stories ever thank you for doing this video.I think everyone should know about the boxer rebellion and the siege of the Peking 🥊 🥊🥊🥊🥊
Moral enemies after beating the boxer rebellion: hooray! We are best friends forever! And then they beat eachother
I was getting interested in this subject a few days ago, thanks for making a video about it! Also I never realized how recent this video is
Edit: 🥊🥊🥊🥊
Important context was that Cixi was trying to appoint a successor to Guangxu, and then get him to abdicate, but various Western powers didn't like this, and Cixi saw their disapproval as an attempt at a counter-coup.
17:22 average angry german moment
30:00 average angry japanese moment
so... did Italy get Sanmen Bay?
the ambassador went home to rome and told em:
"send men, bae"
I’ll be honest, the battle of Peking is like the battle of Gallipoli, as they had underestimated the Chinese forces which made the campaign drag on, same thing with the Ottomans
Your videos get better and better.
This is basically like Kung fu panda 2
Guys with guns fight guys who know kung fu
Except it ended with the gun toting foreign guys winning over kung fu gunners
Glad you covered this.
The boxer rebellion wasnt the first modern international intervention, Crete was an earlier international intervention, during the 1890's it was briefly ran by a council admirals from the 6 great powers following the ottomans trying to reassert greater control over the territory
Part of me would like a what if "Boxer Victory" the other part knows it would be mostly war crimes as the great powers lunched the mother of all punitive wars.
Great video and also I’m proud of you for making a video on this
You should do a video on the war of the triple alliance aka the Paraguayan war that would be really interesting. Also great video keep it up ❤
Thanks for starting the video with that song.
Yes yes yes finally we got the 55 days at Peking
that time where medieval fight club tried to take over China
"They really thought they were immune to bullets. We'll find out how that went!"
Chesty Puller found out REAL damn quickly
One of my favorite tidbits about the Boxer Rebellion is how it helped kickstart the career if the fightinest marine to ever live.
DAN MOTHER FUCKIN DALY! 200 V1!
Smedley Butler? If so, very true.
Well, first of all, thanks for this interesting video and Merry Christmas to everyone! ❤
Next, as a high school science student from China with average history grades (and not very good at translating historical terms), I think this video does focus more on the interesting side.
As one of the struggles to save the nation from peril, the Boxer Rebellion, although it had a strong anti-imperialist and patriotic tendency and demonstrated the spirit of sacrifice of us, the Chinese people, who were not afraid of the strongest of the strong, was extremely obvious in its blind xenophobic behaviours, not to mention that it lacked the leadership of the advanced class and was unable to stop China from sliding into the abyss of semi-colonialism.
Also, I'm not quite sure if this video should mention the German Imperial Minister to China who was associated with the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance.
Then, the Eight-Nation Alliance also helped to suppress the Boxer Rebellion (at that time, it was also known as “拳匪”), and the eight countries that made up the Eight-Nation Alliance, together with Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, a total of eleven countries, coerced the Qing Dynasty into signing the Treaty of Xinchou, which is a hellmark of China's modern history: it marked China's complete descent into the abyss of a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society.
Finally, I would like to mention one more thing: as you can see, there are eight “王” (Kaiser, king, etc.) in the upper part of “琵琶琴瑟”, which is actually from a couplet of that time:
琵琶琴瑟，八大王王王在上 (from a non-native Chinese speaker)
魑魅魍魉，四小鬼鬼鬼犯边 (from a native Chinese speakers)
So I use this to remind myself to learn more and remember history.
Question, you use the term semi-colonialism to describe what China endured. However, in the West, we only have the term colonialism and don’t have an ontological distinction besides non-colonialism and colonialism. Instead, most if not all colonial ventures and policies are simply labeled as forms of colonialism. What in the Chinese perspective creates an impression of semi-colonialism rather than colonialism?
@@redmonkey4351 Thank you for your question! Actually, we have a term called semi-colonial and semi-feudal (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing dynasty); and I then tried to use a word with a similar structure, i.e. semi-colonialism. I apologise for not conveying it clearly. Further, at that time (around 1900), the Qing government still existed, but it was just a tool for various imperialist countries to rule China. I guess that's why we call it semi-colonial and semi-feudal (i.e 半殖民地半封建).
@@PipaQinse233 No need to apologize! With what you wrote, it's not your fault that I misunderstood. It's simply a case that western education tends to just focus on clear-cut, black and white "this is colonized and this isn't colonized" and "this is a colonizer and this isn't a colonizer." So I was asking from that perspective, not remembering that colonialism often went hand in hand with domestic political developments in lands where European (and Japanese) colonies were established. A similar thing happens in India, where people in the west think that India was blanket fully controlled by the British, but it was a multi-layered system that developed over time to envelope and integrate the local ruling elites who wanted to maintain or expand their own local power. So yeah, semi-colonialism makes a great deal of sense in this case!
@@redmonkey4351 This is a Marxist term that Lenin created (in 1901) to describe Chinese society. It saw the feudal monarch as a partner of foreign colonizers, thus providing legitimacy to the revolutionary movement that overthrew the monarchy. It's understandable that westerners don't know much about Marxism-Leninism.
Highly recommend everyone go read Boxers and Saints, a two part graphic novel written by Gene Luen Yang about this conflict. You get the perspective of the boxers as well as the perspective of Chinese Christians at the time.