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Title: Where are the boxers?
Review: This book should please the casual readers, those who liked the film with Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner and want to know more about the historical episode it was based on (but not too much). Several books have already been written in that fashion on the same subject in the past. It is not of any interest to those other readers looking for who the boxers were, who commanded them and where they fit in the long history of peasant uprisings in old -and not so old - China. In the book, so little is said about them that they seem to have landed in Peking from another planet. So many times, reading it feels like being a foreign settler looking at what's happening outside the legation compound through a hole in the wall... Very long, too anecdotal and a bit boring.
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