Talk:Boxer movement

Page move from Yìhéquán to Boxers (group)

Hello. As you may have noticed, I have moved the page from Yìhéquán to Boxers (group). This falls in-line with the page-name policies laid out in Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English). In English, the term 'boxers' to refer to the group is nearly completely universal, never have I seen an example where the pinyin is used instead in a fully English publication. If you disagree or realize that I've made some major mistake, feel free to ping me on here or send me a message to me on my talk page.

Cheers! Khu'hamgaba Kitap ^talk 22:16, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Members

Between 3 and 100000 members? Ripousse (talk) 02:22, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Characterization of xenophobia

@Simonm223 and @ProKMT, this seems like a conversation worth hashing out here. Cards on the table: I would personally very much characterize the Boxer movement as fundamentally xenophobic, though suffice it to say I'm not totally morally appalled about that, given the context.

While pointing to their slogan alone certainly doesn't suffice, I think a broad reading of expressed Boxer ideology and praxis bears this out. But I'm curious to hear what others think.Remsense诉 23:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

It's the removal of the anti-imperialism tag that bothers me. Simonm223 (talk) 23:13, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Aye—if I understand correctly this echoes the old chestnut of "you wouldn't characterize the Seven Years' War as France falling victim to imperialism, so why do so with the Mughals or the Qing?" The Boxers can't be anti-imperialist because they were fierce proponents of an empire, in other words.

I don't find this argument persuasive, though I'm not sure I'm steelmanning it here, so I'm happy to be corrected. Remsense诉 23:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

To see the words: Destroy the foreigner appear next to a catalogue of wiki's leftist belief systems is too good. 1 updoot to keep that going. 2605:A601:A099:5500:F45F:E236:2B8E:A6AD (talk) 09:22, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Here the construct of "left good right bad" appears under the guise of "a wiki series", whatever TF that is. like "over here you can learn more about Nelson Mandela, Gaddafi, or Hamas..Just in case youre interested in reading all that for whatever reasons" 2605:A601:A099:5500:F45F:E236:2B8E:A6AD (talk) 09:31, 7 October 2025 (UTC)