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Review: The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

David Sibley’s new book, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, whose publication was announced here, has gotten a positive review in H-NET.  Reviewer James Carter writes in H-WAR:

Military historian David J. Silbey’s book, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, offers a much-needed and fresh telling of this series of events. The author ably captures the drama and feel of the period with deft and stylish writing that yields insights into key events and personalities, and also into the so-called great game of empire amid the struggle between modern and barbaric, between old and new… Silbey does a splendid job in laying out the particular ambitions of the great powers (including the newly arrived ones, such as Japan and the United States) as they ran up against a crumbling dynasty and a restless and long-suffering people not willing to watch their nation be so easily turned into the next laboratory for the West’s great colonial experiment.

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