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Page 162 from Issue 101

Page 162 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly Breach The big-nosed barbarians claimed they came for peace, but they brought twenty thousand troops from the sea. They meant to despoil our land, so we fought them with every means. To our surprise, they wanted to tal ...

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Page 163 from Issue 101

Page 163 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly After all its treasures were plundered Lord Elgin sent our Emperor a word by torching his favorite park —the smoke flying north choked the Son of Heaven to death three hundred miles away. 164 Issue 101 page ...

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Page 165 from Issue 101

Page 165 from Issue 101 The Rebel Leaders In a godless land every hero may become a god. When Hong failed the examination again— his dream of being an official shattered, he was carried home and for days remained in bed, delirious, sweating, prattling. He ...

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Page 166 from Issue 101

Page 166 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly They prepared to march north to Peking to topple the Manchu Court. But one of his generals, who used to he a charcoal burner, began to have trances and claimed to be the Holy Ghost, speaking in the very voice of the Fa ...

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Page 167 from Issue 101

Page 167 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly Starting Off The bell was tolling as fire was crackling in the pottery braziers. Three hundred men gathered before the shrine holding halberds, swords, shovels, forks. A few knelt before the statue of a local god, who ...

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Page 168 from Issue 101

Page 168 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly Help At long last the Boxers were crushed, but the foreign troops began looting. The cities of Peking smelled of death trembling with bugles and screams. Abandoned by the Manchu Court, all we could do was wait for our ...