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Well, "boxers" or pugilists fight with their fists. So, Boxer was a convenient name in English to refer to the group in China that called themselves (that which
would translate as) the "righteous harmonious fist." The goal of that secret society was to scare the "foreign devils" out of China, and to stamp out the "Western
religion," Christianity.
Among the effects of the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion, was the stationing of the 4th (U.S.) Marines in China--including the famous "horse marines."
Terrill
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Bill East wrote:
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> > A modern saint: Anne An (Xin) and companions (d. 1900) This was a
> > family group of four Chinese women, all converts to Christianity.
> > During the Boxer Rebellion they were seized by a gang of Boxers at
> > their village. When they refused to foreswear their religion they
> > were killed.
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> Does anyone know why the Boxers were so called? - Bill.
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