The siege of Peking as recorded in the London Times
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Thirty years ago a miniature "world war"— The Boxer Rebellion—ended in China. It was not China’s war, in fact, but a war between the Manchu Court against the eleven Powers of the world. The leading journals in Europe and America displayed reports of this international struggle with prominence and it was the talk of the civilised world for nearly four months. In this particular period the Siege of Peking took place; the ancient Chinese capital was isolated and communications of all kinds were suspended for weeks. What was thought to have happened in Peking, and which in most eases never happened, continued to be the salient news of the day and gripped the world in a state of horror for many days, what effects on the minds of the readers' and the influence it produced in the leaders of foreign countries, cannot be estimated. This thesis is a comparative study of the news reports regarding the Siege of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, as published in the "London Times", and the alleged facts as recorded by the historian and official reports. The purpose of this research is to show: First, that the Boxer Rebellion was not a national war waged by China as a whole, neither was it merely an anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement, but that it was a conflict with many difficult and underlying problems; second, to prove by historical and official data that many of the alarming reports as recorded in "The London Times" were erroneous; third, to show how difficult it was to obtain news, to get it confirmed and to have it accepted as authentic; finally, to show how generally such unfounded reports are believed in Europe and America."--Preface.
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