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The Boxers, officially known as the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (traditional Chinese: 義和拳; simplified Chinese: 义和拳; pinyin: Yìhéquán; Wade–Giles: I4-ho2-ch'üan2) among other names, were a Chinese secret society based in Northern China that carried out the Boxer Rebellion from 1899 to 1901. The movement was made ...
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were ...
Y. Yellow Sand Society. Boxer movement. Categories: Secret societies by country. Political organizations based in China. Organizations based in China by subject. Chinese diaspora.
The Dazexiang Uprising (simplified Chinese: 大泽乡起义; traditional Chinese: 大澤鄉起義; July – December 209 BC) was the first uprising against Qin rule following the death of Qin Shi Huang. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were both army officers who were ordered to lead their bands of commoner soldiers north to participate in the defense ...
The White Lotus Rebellion (Chinese: 川 楚 白 蓮 敎 起 義; pinyin: Chuān chŭ bái lián jiào qǐ yì, 1794–1804) was a rebellion initiated by followers of the White Lotus movement during the Qing dynasty of China. Motivated by millenarian Buddhists who promised the immediate return of the Buddha, it erupted out of social and economic ...
The Yellow Sand Society[a] (Chinese: 黃沙會; Wade–Giles: Huang Sha Hui), [4] also known as Yellow Way Society (Chinese: 黃道會; Wade–Giles: Huang Tao Hui), [5] and Yellow Gate Society (Chinese: 黃門會; Wade–Giles: Huang Men Hui), [6] was a rural secret society and folk religious sect in northern China during the 19th and 20th ...
A sustained influence campaign. Sun is the latest in a series of people living in New York to be accused by federal prosecutors of being a secret Chinese agent. Last month, Yuanjun Tang, who ...
Tongmenghui. The Tongmenghui of China[a] was a secret society and underground resistance movement founded by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others in Tokyo, Empire of Japan, on 20 August 1905, with the goal of overthrowing China 's Qing dynasty. [2][3] It was formed from the merger of multiple late-Qing dynasty Chinese revolutionary groups.