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Boxers
Rebellion (05) :
...In
the movie, Shanghai Knights, which takes place before the
actual Boxer rebellion, the Boxers, led by Wu Chow and backed by
British Lord Nelson Rathbone, killed Chon Wang and Chon Lin's father,
attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, and unite the Emperor's enemies
and storm the Forbidden City in order for their leaders to become King
of the United Kingdom and Emperor of China, but they fail.
 The
novel, Moment In Peking, by Lin Yutang, opens during the Boxer
Rebellion, and provides a child's-eye view of the turmoil through the
eyes of the protagonist.
The novel, Los Impostores
(The Impostors), by Colombian fiction author Santiago Gamboa, deals
with a modern day Boxer sect and its members' efforts to recover a
sacred Boxer text held by Catholic priests in China.
The novel, The Palace of
Heavenly Pleasure, by Adam Williams, describes the experiences of
a small group of western missionaries, traders and railway engineers
in a fictional town in Northern China shortly before and during the
Boxer Rebellion.
Moreover, Neal Stephenson in
his award-winning sci-fi novel The Diamond Age refers to
Boxer's Rebellion in many ways, including "Fists of Righteous
Harmony" as the name of uprising Chinese xenophobic faction.
 The
novel for teenagers Tulku, by Peter Dickinson begins with a
missionary from the United States being killed in the destruction of a
village in China. The novel follows the unexpected experiences of his
thirteen-year-old son, and also those of a middle-aged English woman
and her young Chinese lover, tracing the events leading to the
imprisonment of the trio in a Buddhist monastry in Tibet, and their
extraordinary new learning experiences during their incarceration.
In the cult television series,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, vampires Spike, Darla,and Drusilla wreak
havoc during the Boxer Rebellion. They are joined by the souled
vampire, Angelus.
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