As written in the book The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey, the author gives an account of the Boxer Rebellion . Author David J. Silbey provides an account of the Boxer Rebellion using the letters and diaries of Allied soldiers and diplomats. The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-foreign movement in China in 1900. The conclusion of this rebellion led China to sign the Boxer Protocol in September 1901 (page 225). This treaty involved the Chinese paying reparations to the United States, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, and Austria-Hungary. Aptly named the Boxer Rebellion, the first question you need to ask yourself is who the Boxers are. The Boxers are the name used by Western society for the peasant group Yi-he Quan, which can be generally translated as "Fists of the Harmony of Justice" or "Boxers United in Justice" (page 35). Very few written documents are composed. by the Boxers because they were largely illiterate. As a group, they were largely autonomous, without a central leader or ranking system. The Boxers were largely composed ...