Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 8, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000006QVK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,679 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Millions of Chinese rejoiced on July 1, 1997 when the British handed Hong Kong back to China. The return of Hong Kong completed what the Boxer Rebellion set out to do nearly 100 years ago - get rid of Western imperialism in China. For centuries, China was a closed nation, but in the 1800s, Westerners forced their way in, leaving the Chinese psychologically and spiritually devastated. Resentment built when missionaries tried to convert the heathens into Christians. A nationalistic movement called the Boxers (meaning ìfists of righteous harmonyî), founded on the mutual hatred of foreigners, began to grow. The Boxers practiced martial arts and believed themselves impervious to bullets. Thousands of peasants swelled its ranks. In May, 1900, the movement spread across the countryside, leaving a wake of violence and destruction in its path as it headed toward Peking, now known as Beijing. The failure of the Boxer Rebellion built support for nationalism which eventually led to the revolution of 1911, the rise of Sun Yat-sen and the end of 2,000 years of monarchy. With Western rule over in Hong Kong, is China poised to become the most powerful nation in the 21st century? Examine the motivations behind the bloody uprising and discover why Chinese peasants were willing to take up arms to drive foreigners out of the country.

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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Chinas Boxer Rebellion, July 12, 2001

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Rainer Keller (Frankfurt am Main Deutschland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Search of China's Boxer Rebellion [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In priciple this documentary is quite well done, as it tells the previous history, going back to the Opium Wars in 1838-42, which ended with the take-over of Hongkong and other more or less blackmailed privileges, including the right to furhther on sell Opium and practically destroying contry and culture. But the documentary is lying in so far, as it does not mention with one word, that at the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 the payments pressed out of China for the Britisch was for the burned down storage buildings with millions of Pounds worth of Opium! In so far, this is falsified propaganda, to insinuate, in the 20th Century the world did not help to regain the Britisch Drug money!! Therefore actually the film is without real value!