Author: Chiminelli, Eugenio.
Title: Nel paese dei draghi e delle chimere.
Description: Lapi, Citta` di Castello, 1903. VIII,660,[1] pp. B./w. text-ills & one fold. b./w plan of Beijing (Planta di Pekino'). Re-bound in fine modern brown quarter h.leather binding, spine raised in compartments, marbled endpapers. 8vo. - The plan of Beijing is torn (strengthened on verso) & is partly stained / foxed on verso. Important report of the Italian Military Mission in China, Beijing and Ci-Li Province, conducted under the command of Admiral Camillio Candiani. This work represents one of the few original Italian sources on the Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, the Boxer Insurrection, or the Yihetuan Movement, an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Yìhéquán), known as the Boxers in English because many of its members had practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as Chinese boxing. The Eight-Nation Alliance (Germany, Japan, Russia, Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Austria-Hungary), after initially being turned back by the Imperial Chinese military and Boxer militia, brought a large number of armed troops to China. - The text was partly published in the Gazzetta di Venezia in 1900. - Complete with the plan of Beijing.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia China Military Asia China Etnografie Azië Militaria Azië