Editing Boxer Rebellion (section)

== Media portrayal ==
[[File:Marines fight rebellious Boxers outside Peking Legation, 1900. Copy of painting by Sergeant John Clymer., 1927 - 1981 - NARA - 532578.tif|thumb|[[US Marines]] fight rebellious Boxers outside [[Beijing Legation Quarter]], 1900{{snd}}copy of painting by Sergeant John Clymer]]
[[File:Boxer Rebellion.jpg|thumb|British and Japanese forces engage Boxers in battle]]

By 1900, many new forms of media had matured, including illustrated newspapers and magazines, postcards, broadsides, and advertisements, all of which presented images of the Boxers and the invading armies.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=http://video.mit.edu/watch/mit-visualizing-cultures-visualizing-the-boxer-uprising-10054/ <!--Don't use https; their SSL cert is invalid.--> |title=Visualizing the Boxer Uprising: A Kaleidoscopic View |date=14 March 2011 |last=Perdue |first=Peter |last2=Sebring |first2=Ellen |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] |series=MIT Visualizing Cultures |access-date=15 March 2024}}</ref> The rebellion was covered in the foreign illustrated press by artists and photographers. Paintings and prints were also published including Japanese woodblocks.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Sharf |first1=Frederic A. |title=China 1900: The Artists' Perspective |last2=Harrington |first2=Peter |publisher=Greenhill |year=2000 |isbn=1-85367-409-5 |location=London}}</ref> In the following decades, the Boxers were a constant subject of comment. A sampling includes:
* [[Liu E (writer)|Liu E]], ''[[The Travels of Lao Can]]''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Liu |first=E |url=https://archive.org/details/travelsoflaotsan0000liue |title=The Travels of Lao Ts'an |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-231-07255-7 |location=New York |translator-last=Shaddick |translator-first=Harold |orig-date=1907 |url-access=registration}}. A 1983 translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang is abridged and is missing some of the Boxer-related material.</ref> sympathetically shows an honest official trying to carry out reforms and depicts the Boxers as sectarian rebels.
* [[Wu Jianren]], ''[[Sea of Regret]]''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-25 |title=The Sea of Regret: Two Turn-of-the-Century Chinese Romantic Novels |url=https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-sea-of-regret-two-turn-of-the-century-chinese-romantic-novels/ |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=UH Press |language=en-US}}</ref> deals with the disintegration of the relationship of a young couple with the Boxer Rebellion in its background.
* [[Lin Yutang]], ''[[Moment in Peking]]''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yutang |first=Lin |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6393690M/Moment_in_Peking |title=Moment in Peking: a novel of contemporary Chinese life. |date=1939 |publisher=J. Day Co. |location=New York |ol=6393690M}}</ref> covers events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Rebellion.
* The 1963 film ''[[55 Days at Peking]]'' directed by [[Nicholas Ray]] and starring [[Charlton Heston]], [[Ava Gardner]], and [[David Niven]].<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0056800|title=55 Days at Peking|qid=Q244115}}</ref>
* In 1975, Hong Kong's [[Shaw Brothers]] studio produced the film ''Boxer Rebellion'' ({{zhi|t=八國聯軍|p=bāguó liánjūn|w=Pa Kuo lien chun|l=Eight-Nation Allied Army}}) under director [[Chang Cheh]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=HKflix |url=http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.533288/qx/details.htm |access-date=6 September 2012 |publisher=HKflix}} {{dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
* ''[[The Last Empress (novel)|The Last Empress]]'' (Boston, 2007), by [[Anchee Min]], describes the long reign of the [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] in which the siege of the legations is one of the climactic events in the novel.
* [[Mo Yan]]'s ''Sandalwood Death'', a novel told from the viewpoint of villagers during the Boxer Uprising.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mo |first=Yan |title=Sandalwood Death |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-8061-4339-2 |location=Norman |translator-last=Goldblatt |translator-first=Howard}}</ref>
* [[Gene Luen Yang]]'s ''[[Boxers and Saints|Boxers]]'', a piece of [[historical fiction]] written around the event in the form of a [[graphic novel]].