Women groups that could not participate in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion of China organized themselves under what colorful name? Raise the ...
Red Lanterns (Boxer Uprising) Red Lanterns (Boxer Uprising) The Red Lanterns were the women's fighting groups organized by village women who were not allowed to join the men's groups during the Boxer Uprising of 1900. Villagers said these women had supernatural powers and were called upon to perform tasks which the male Boxers could not. Unlike the Taiping rebels but like many Chinese folk sects such as the White Lotus Sect, Boxer ideology forbade contact with women. Boxer discipline in its strictest form did not allow sexual contact with or even looking at a woman for fear that the female's polluting "yin" would destroy
China Martyrs of 1900 in the Boxer Rebellion. The decapitation of missionary and Yale graduate Horace Tracy Pitkin while defending two women missionaries led to the founding of the Yale China Mission, the papers of which remain a significant research source concerning early 20th century Chinese history. Another large collection of missionary papers is in London. China Martyrs of 1900 The "China Martyrs of 1900" is a term used by some Protestant Christians to refer to American and European missionaries and converts who were killed during the Boxer Rebellion, when attacks targeting Christians and foreigners took place in northern China. At least 189 Protestant