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Company of Boxers, Tien-Tsin, China (photograph: The Whiting View Company, 1901)

Source: Library of Congress (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/guide/port-4)

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The Opium Wars and Boxer Rebellion were violent products of nineteenth-century contact between China and the West. Although British operations in China during the period are well documented, few photographs of the Chinese Boxer troops survive. Originating in the mid-nineteenth century, the stereograph was an ancestor of the newsreel, affording Americans a window on the remote corners of the globe.

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