China: Boxer Prisoners Captured By 6th US Cavalry Tientsin / Tianjin, China (1901).

The Boxer Rebellion, also called "The Boxer Uprising" by some historians or the "Righteous Harmony Society Movement" in northern China, was a series of lootings, arsons, and killings of foreigners, by gangs of rural Chinese, who claimed to be in possession of supernatural power. Foreigners were seen as ghost men that were to be exterminated. Initially they were suppressed by the Manchu authority, and were regarded as bandits and hunted down. At a later stage, the Boxers were recruited by the Imperial Court, and were equipped to attack the foreigners alongside the Imperial Army, when the foreigners illegally violated Chinese sovereignty.