China’s forced exposure to the West ignited sparks of nativist anti-foreignism…. the worst of such outbreaks was the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, during which rebels laid siege to the foreign legation quarter in Peking for fifty-five days. The rebels struck particularly hard at both Chinese and foreign missionaries. Of the more than 230 Western missionaries killed, 189 were Protestants, and seventy-nine were from the China Inland Mission. When troops from eight foreign powers… rescued China’s capital from the boxers, they imposed huge reparations burdens on the country. To his considerable credit, CIM founder Hudson Taylor rejected any compensation from China for the lives and properties of his missionaries savaged by the Boxers. In 1860, he had written “should I have a thousand pounds, China can claim them all; should I have a thousand lives, I would not spare one not to get to China.” Likewise, the United States required that its share of the reparations be used for educational opportunities for Chinese students. Page 42

David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing, Regnery Publishing, Wash. DC 2003