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A psychological Study of the New Intellectuals' Attitudes Towards the Boxers in the Late Qing Dynasty

Quan-min ZHAO   

  • Received:2000-03-17 Online:2000-05-01 Published:2025-12-19

Abstract:

After the Reform Movement of the late Qing dynasty, the new group of intellectuals, as a group of "the marginal men" showed different attitudes to the Boxer Uprising, which was initiated by the fanners in 1900. There were three kinds of view about the Boxer Uprising: hostile attitude, neutral attitude and sympathetic attitude. The conjunction of mental states between history and reality was the reason why the intellectuals formed these attitudes, which also was the reason why they were separated from the farmers.

Key words: late Qing Dynasty, the new intellectuals, the Boxer Uprising, attitude