Original sentence: Some historians claim that these demands prevented the Chinese peasants from becoming self-sufficient or acquiring manufactured goods from outside China.The Eight-Nation Alliance is seen by historians as a process of invasion into China by western imperialists, coveting the wealth of China, with the Chinese military of the time being weak.The reaction of the Boxers against foreign imperialism in China is regarded by later historians as patriotic, ignoring the long standing Chinese causes of the occupations going back to the early 1800s
Edited sentence: ) claim that these demands prevented the Chinese peasants from becoming self-sufficient or acquiring manufactured goods from outside China.Blaming occupation on the country in question has been a frequent mode of ethnocentric western historians up until the 1970's.Some historians (who.The reaction of the Boxers against foreign imperialism in China is claimed by pro occupation historians as patriotic, blaming it on "ignoring the long standing Chinese causes of the occupations going back to the early 1800s.This however is not considered proffesional in historic circles anymore.Today the The Eight-Nation Alliance is seen by historians as a process of invasion into China by western imperialists, coveting the wealth of China, with the Chinese military of the time being weak