A documentary history of the Oberlin Band, a group of American missionary families connected to Oberlin College who served in Shanxi (Shansi) province, and their deaths in the Taiyuan massacre and the wider Shanxi killings of July and August 1900 during the Boxer uprising, reconstructed from missionary correspondence, diaries and Chinese and Western contemporary records.
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Reliability TierA university press history built from missionary correspondence, diaries and contemporary records, reviewed in the Journal of Asian Studies and the Journal of American History as a careful reconstruction of the Shanxi missionary community's destruction; treated here as the standard secondary account of the Taiyuan massacre specifically, distinct from general Boxer Rebellion surveys. Citation
PublisherSyracuse University Press 1 Publication Year Sources
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- Wars & Conflicts, 16 claims: 11 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 3 connected, 1 general references.
- Articles, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
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