Edge of the American West (another blog with a strong UC Davis connection) is “live-blogging,”* 109 years after fact, the Boxer Rebellion via back issues of The New York Times. It’s an interesting project and past mining of the NYT archives has yielded nuggets of China’s past as well as whole veins of American media attitudes towards China in an earlier age. What might be just as instructive, in the case of the Boxer series, would looking at the parallels between media coverage of this event in 1900 and media coverage of similar recent events in China. There are sure to be tropes which have had remarkable staying power.
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*Yep, you guessed it, like all wordpress.org blogs the link is blocked in China. Set your proxies to “evade.”
