According to them, the people who overturned the Boxer Rebellion were all "experts with Western backgrounds who had the right to speak". These experts kept stigmatizing the glorious Boxer brothers and calling on netizens to be vigilant of these experts.

Recently, I saw some humanities people outside the field of history and professionalism, and they were keen to reverse the verdict of the Boxer . According to them, the people who overturned the Boxer Rebellion were all "experts with Western backgrounds who had the right to speak". These experts kept stigmatizing the glorious Boxer brothers and calling on netizens to be vigilant of these experts.

They also gave two reasons for refuting.

First, some evil deeds and evil things were done by gangsters under the banner of the Boxer Rebellion, and they had nothing to do with the real Boxer Rebellion senior brother.

Second, Boxer Movement is essentially a righteous uprising against Western oppression.

They gave a total of the above two reasons for refuting.

Boilers Movement

To be honest, I think the reason why these people are whitewashed by the Boxer Rebellion is actually an xenophobic mentality at work. It is particularly shameless to say that everyone who does bad things is "outsiders" and "temporary workers". The mainstream academic community has long criticized the Boxer Rebellion. It has existed since the Republic of China. Moreover, scholars may not have Western backgrounds. They label the other party as a "Western background" in everything, which has a bit of the "some legacy". Such people who like to label others at every turn are truly worthy of our vigilance. I think they are scary.

So, how should we correctly view the Boxer Rebellion?

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from the perspective of technology and productivity here, I want to introduce a new perspective, that is, to judge whether the Boxer Rebellion is legitimate and reasonable based on the perspective of scientific researchers, that is, the elements of science and technology and productivity.

A country can only improve productivity if the power of technology continues to improve. Without technology, there is no productivity. Relying on traditional slash-and-burn farming, there is naturally no technology and no productivity. Although the Boxer Rebellion was under the banner of justice, they were extremely xenophobic and hated all the achievements of modern scientific and technological civilization, which was to resist and destroy technology.

For example, historical records show that they destroyed railways, telephone poles, bicycles, telegraph facilities, power generation equipment, and even "foreign paper" and "foreign pens" are prohibited. "The Boxer Revelation" also wrote: "0% off railway, pulling up a wire pole, and urgently destroying the steamship. " These behaviors are the destruction of the achievements of scientific and technological civilization, and are of the same lineage as the later generations of the air conditioner and freezer that "represents Western technology" even if the weather is hot, and the son of a wealthy businessman, Mouden, is from the same lineage.

This person does not allow air conditioning and freezer at home

China has not been a completely closed area since ancient times. From food, clothing, use, and even tables and chairs are introduced from Western Regions . We watch the costume TV series " Han Wudi ". At that time, the Han Chinese , regardless of their wealth, sat on the ground, and there was no introduction of " Hu Bed " and "Hu Bench". Just talk about the electric lights that provide us with lighting. Are there still people calling them "Western Lights" now?

"The Great Emperor of Han" stills

Any kind of scientific and technological achievements have no so-called national characteristics. They are widely used around the world, thus benefiting all mankind. The senior brothers of the Boxer Rebellion, they should be fighting against unequal oppression, rather than modern scientific and technological civilization. This is when they found the wrong target.

To be fair, there is indeed a dark history in China's modern foreign-related history. The reason was that the Qing government was unable to fight against Western civilization, so it "blame" on local officials.

For example, the Qing government stipulated that if local officials are unable to suppress the lesson plan, officials will be demoted to one level. It is also stipulated that the status of archbishop and bishop is equivalent to that of the governor. These measures have improved the status of foreign missionaries, and local officials are afraid that the lesson plan will be expanded and demoted themselves, so they favor the religious people. This leads to the expansion of conflicts between China and the West.

Representative of the interests of the nobles of the Qing government: Cixi

From the perspective of responsibility, what should be criticized was actually the Qing government, and it was the stupid measures of the Qing government that caused the Boxer Rebellion.The Qing government was essentially an authoritarian system, and the civilized and legal system did not originally exist. They represented the interests of the aristocratic, not the interests of the state. Therefore, when the Qing government encountered the lesson plan of "causing trouble", it did not resolve disputes from the perspective of civilized and legal system, and treated the people who were not taught equally, but instead adopted unreasonable "passing the blame", which made local officials have to tend to teach the people. The root cause of inequality oppression is the Qing government without the spirit of civilized legal system.

or above is the essential reason for the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion. What should be truly responsible must be the shameless, stupid and selfish Qing government. Even if it is criticized, it should also be criticized. As for the senior brothers' attacks and elimination of Western science and technology, it was really the wrong direction of artillery fire. Unfortunately, the senior brothers of the Boxer Rebellion put forward the slogan " to support the Qing Dynasty and destroy foreign ", listed the Qing government that should have been criticized as an absolute protection list, and transformed the Western oppression that should have been criticized into the elimination of all Western technology.

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Once the Boxers movement is determined to eliminate Western technology, they are destined to be unjust. The role of science and technology is to improve productivity. Only by improving productivity can the country survive and develop in the world.

What is justice?

The Boxer Movement was of course considered a rebellious movement, but there were many rebellious movements in history, not just the Boxer Movement. When we observe countless resistance movements in global history, they have different effects. Some resistance movements, such as liberating black slaves, are the ones who liberated productivity and promoted social progress. Some resistance movements, such as the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty, eliminated all technological civilizations and directly destroyed productivity, which was not conducive to social progress.

Boxers also absorb children to participate in

. Regardless of whether the reason for the Boxers' resistance was legitimate or not, it is indeed extremely unfavorable to the development of productivity.

Recalling that since 1921, a group of passionate people gathered in Shanghai, and finally fought against all dark forces through countless bloody sacrifices. China finally stood up proudly in 1949. Their behavior is essentially liberating productivity. Only this kind of resistance to liberate productivity is meaningful resistance. No matter how the Boxer Rebellion was embellished, it could not prove that they were reasonable and legitimistic.

Author: Sceptic Explorer