Description
The first edition of The Siege In Peking: China Against The World by William Alexander Parsons Martin, President of the Chinese Imperial University.
Octavo, [4], 190pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in red on covers. This work is complete, with 18 illustrated plates, frontispiece portrait and a fold-out map. Light dust along top edge of text block, solid binding, a fine example. In the publisher’s scarce dust jacket, archival tape repairs to verso, some loss at heel of the spine, a stable example.
The Siege In Peking is the story of the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), an anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising in China led by the “Boxers,” a secret society known as the Yihequan. It was suppressed by an eight-nation alliance, including the U.S., Britain, Japan, and Russia, which occupied Beijing in August 1900. The Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol in 1901, imposing heavy penalties on China.
