Talk:Boxer movement

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Page move from Yìhéquán to Boxers (group)[edit]

Hello. As you may have noticed, I have moved the page from Yìhéquán to Boxers (group). This falls in-line with the page-name policies laid out in Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English). In English, the term 'boxers' to refer to the group is nearly completely universal, never have I seen an example where the pinyin is used instead in a fully English publication. If you disagree or realize that I've made some major mistake, feel free to ping me on here or send me a message to me on my talk page.

Cheers! Khu'hamgaba Kitap^talk 22:16, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Members[edit]

Between 3 and 100000 members? Ripousse (talk) 02:22, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Characterization of xenophobia[edit]

@Simonm223 and @ProKMT, this seems like a conversation worth hashing out here. Cards on the table: I would personally very much characterize the Boxer movement as fundamentally xenophobic, though suffice it to say I'm not totally morally appalled about that, given the context.

While pointing to their slogan alone certainly doesn't suffice, I think a broad reading of expressed Boxer ideology and praxis bears this out. But I'm curious to hear what others think.Remsense 诉 23:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's the removal of the anti-imperialism tag that bothers me. Simonm223 (talk) 23:13, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aye—if I understand correctly this echoes the old chestnut of "you wouldn't characterize the Seven Years' War as France falling victim to imperialism, so why do so with the Mughals or the Qing?" The Boxers can't be anti-imperialist because they were fierce proponents of an empire, in other words.

I don't find this argument persuasive, though I'm not sure I'm steelmanning it here, so I'm happy to be corrected. Remsense诉 23:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]