The Boxer Rebellion

[hskwarrior]

Here's a link to the full text book on the boxer rebellion.

http://www.archive.org/stream/chinay...ge/n9/mode/2up

[Lee Chiang Po]

The boxers and qing got together under an anti-christian/ anti-colonial banner and it was the christian missionaries that were early victims of the boxers brutality.

yes, there are a lot of testimonies about that time.

I totally understand people wanting their country back and to be the captains of their own ship. But talk about going about it the wrong way. The boxers should never have gotten into bed with the qing in my opinion.

Exactly. It was the Qing that were doing the head chopping after their defeat. You really have to pick your friends.

[mickey]

Greetings,

David Jamieson is correct here.

Though I do believe the photo is that of executed prisoners, there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in that offering to suggest that they were Boxers-- other than the seller's description of what he is selling. They were nothing more than prisoners from Canton who were executed.

mickey

[SPJ]

the beheading in china was done with a machete

whereas the french use the guillotine

and british/american use hanging by a rope

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[bawang]

*sheds single tear down cheek

[TaichiMantis]

how is it confirmed as boxer rebellion?
and how would they be beheaded in prison and by whom?

It didn't say "in" the prison, could have taken place outside the prison. The picture was taken during the time of the boxer rebellion, doesn't mean they were actually boxers. A lot of innocent people were rounded up and killed during this time.

It's also listed in the Library of Congress

[TenTigers]

the weird thing..the guy in the second row, third in from the left, looks like me.
I knew I was a Martial Artist in China in a past life,
I just didn't know I was a dead one...

[hskwarrior]

yup! sorry TT

[Scott R. Brown]

well, the Qing Empire had strong penalties for secret societies. Some went to jail, some were tortured. But, if they were suspected to be members of the Hung Mun, they were instantly beheaded. i've read more than a few times that the Qing would round up like five thousand Hung Mun members at a time and behead them all.

can you imagine that? 5,000 heads, and bodies laying around.

I read somewhere, years ago, that the mongols beheaded 1,000,000, I think in Samarkand, after they defeated them!

well, at least they have guns. lol

unlike the boxers who brought knives to the gun fight...

Don't forget their Chi!!!

[taai gihk yahn]

*sheds single tear down cheek

<catches the tear in silver bowl to take home and mix with a pinch of stardust, a thimbleful of hopes and dreams and just a shred of integrity to make the magical elixir that will free the Good Fairy prisoners from the evil Manchurian Dragon Overloard>

[Scott R. Brown]

<catches the tear in silver bowl to take home and mix with a pinch of stardust, a thimbleful of hopes and dreams and just a shred of integrity to make the magical elixir that will free the Good Fairy prisoners from the evil Manchurian Dragon Overloard>

I understand that if you sprinkle some on your shoes, you can fly too!

And if you drink a bit you will fall down a rabbit hole and see a strange caterpillar smoking from a hookah while talking to a kitty cat with a big sh!t eating grin! Like this:

[taai gihk yahn]

the weird thing..the guy in the second row, third in from the left, looks like me.
I knew I was a Martial Artist in China in a past life,
I just didn't know I was a dead one...

or maybe it was your long-lost great-granduncle Jules "China-boy" Kellerman, who left Canarsy to seek his fortune in Canton, and got in a bit over his head...

[taai gihk yahn]

And if you drink a bit you will fall down a rabbit hole and see a strange caterpillar smoking from a hookah while talking to a kitty cat with a big sh!t eating grin! Like this:

please, I don't have to do anything nearly as elaborate to see all that - I just have to log onto this forum!

[Scott R. Brown]

please, I don't have to do anything nearly as elaborate to see all that - I just have to log onto this forum!

LOL!!! Ain't it the truth!

[Tao Of The Fist]

I am in the process of actually studying the style that the majority of the Boxer's learned...does that mean that I'm doomed to get my ass kicked and beheaded as well??