History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
The most adventurous writing on modern Chinese history currently available.(History)An extraordinary book. It is breathtaking, bold in concept, innovative in methodology, provocative at times, and eminently readable.(Edmund S. K. FungAsian Studies Review)Cohen offers excellent insight into the idiosyncratics of the Boxer movement, including its ideas, origins, rituals, and development.... Highly recommended.(Library Journal)