Ep 78 - Gu Hongming and Bonnie Prince Tuan with Lee Moore
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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The Chinese Communist Party and the Boxers
Every time the boxers pop up, they're like a response to the changes that are happening on the ground in Chinese politics at the time. When the communists take over, the boxers become this anti-imperialist peasant mob. Liu Shinwu who's one of the first really big post-mal writers writes a semi-fictional account in 1985 of Chinese rioters and he does it in a negative way. In 1989, you've got the Chinese government who feels that it's being bullied by foreigners who are sanctioning them just for quote unquote keeping the peace. They again threw out the boxers as a symbol of victims of foreign oppression.
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