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