In this photograph, foreign troops parade in Beijing after crushing the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. The rebels belonged to Chinese secret societies violently opposed to the spread of Western and other foreign influences in China. The best-known society was called the Boxers by Westerners because its members practiced Chinese ceremonial exercises that resembled shadowboxing.
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