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Course name
Representing Rebellion--China's Boxer Uprising
Institution
Beloit College
Instructor
Daniel Youd
Wikipedia Expert
Brianda (Wiki Ed)
Subject
History
Course dates
2024-09-03 00:00:00 UTC – 2024-12-06 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
15


Our course will focus on the Boxer Uprising (1898-1901), a tumultuous period in China’s history, when anti-foreign forces attempted, but failed, to expel missionaries and imperialist powers (European, US, and Japanese) from their country. We will look at changing depictions of the Boxers from a variety of sources. These will include The Sea of Regret (1905) by Wu Jianren; Sandalwood Death (2001) by Nobel Laureate Mo Yan; and the graphic novel Boxers and Saints (2013) by MacArthur Fellow Gene Luen Yang. We will also analyze reports on the war in popular US and British periodicals of the period.

Topics for Widipedia assignment: authors, novels, wartime journalism, wartime art and photography, wartime postcards, missionary accounts, etc.