Diary of military service in China, 1900 January-December
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- 1 Volumes (In custom box with two other volumes.)
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One bound commercial diary filled with almost daily entries by Toke, detailing his service in China during the Boxer Rebellion. The life of an officer at the camp Wei-hai-wei included much dining, sightseeing, and playing sports, until Chinese anti-colonial militias began their violent uprising. In March 1900, Toke writes of dispersing unlawful assemblies in neighboring villages, followed by battles to put down the rebellion, and scenes of destruction, with dead and wounded soldiers as well as many civilians.
This diary is accompanied in the collection by 42 photographs of China during the same time period, many depicting the destruction relating to the rebellion; they are described separately in the Photographs series.
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