Abstract
TYLER DENNETT describes the Boxer revolt of 1900 as one of the most dramatic episodes in modern history.1 For more than two months the world waited in anxious suspense for word from the legations at Peking where a small number of foreigners and native Christian converts were under attack by thousands of Chinese. The causes of the revolt were then only dimly realized. George Nye Steiger, in his comprehensive and scholarly study, states that the origins of the Boxer revolt lay in the conflict of civilizations. For decades the Chinese saw Westerners introduce ways and beliefs which threatened to bring about the collapse of the world's oldest civilization. The result was a long welling up of feeling against the foreigner which finally manifested itself in the fanaticism and brutalities of the Boxer revolt. The attitude of the West-
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