Demonizing the Boxer Rebellion The Sunday supplement to Le Petit Parisien, a popular French newspaper, ran a series of gruesome front-page pictures of ferocious Boxers burning buildings, murdering priests, and slaughtering Chinese Christians. In this 1910 illustration, Boxer rebels invade a church in Mukden, Manchuria, and massacre the Christian worshippers. Whipping up European outrage about Chinese atrocities was a prelude to harsh reprisals by the Western powers.

(From Le Petit Journal/Mary Evans Picture Library)