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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Righteous and Harmonious Fists
Description: The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, anti-Christian uprising in China, reaching Peking on 21st June, 1900, when Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on all foreign powers and demanded that they depart the country at once. The rebels were known as the âBoxersâ in English, because many of its members practiced Chinese martial arts; in their native language they went by the more evocative title of âthe [secret] Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fistsâ (YĂŹhĂ©quĂĄn). In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly uncover some of the Boxerâs magical beliefs; consider why Christian co...