The Boxer rebellion in China was reaching its peak; a year prior the wildly radical Yihetuan (whose name was Chinese for “boxers”) began slaughtering enemies of their ideology. “When the Empress Dowager backed the Boxers, the Boxers turned solely to ridding China of foreigners.” Geming was only half Chinese; his father was an American foreign diplomat and his job had the family relocated to China, and his parents practiced Christian faith. Geming’s mother was a Chinese Christian his father met in China. Though Geming was born in the United States, he moved to China by the age of one and a half, and was being raised there. It didn’t matter though Geming was distinctly American. In order to maintain control of their Chinese investments, the United States, France, Russia, Britain, and Italy put together a taskforce of two-thousand one-hundred soldiers to crush the Boxer rebellion. “On June 18, 1900, the Empress Dowager ordered all foreigners to be killed.”
Two days later, a day after Geming had just turned five, hollering in the streets filled the evening air, it was the Yiheutan. Too little to fully grasp the severity of the situation he blankly stood in the kitchen with his mother and father as Yiheutan rebels kicked down his front door. His father snatched a kitchen knife to protect them, but was easily overpowered by the …show more content…
The two after a lengthy talk decided to consummate their love, so they did. As months went by it was obvious that Ah Lam had become pregnant. On the night the villagers attacked Gemming was unable to find Ah Lam; when he saw her in the well with their baby the next day, he fled the village in fear. Having no reason to stay in the village he fled for the United States, leaving the village and the memories he made their
Two days later, a day after Geming had just turned five, hollering in the streets filled the evening air, it was the Yiheutan. Too little to fully grasp the severity of the situation he blankly stood in the kitchen with his mother and father as Yiheutan rebels kicked down his front door. His father snatched a kitchen knife to protect them, but was easily overpowered by the …show more content…
The two after a lengthy talk decided to consummate their love, so they did. As months went by it was obvious that Ah Lam had become pregnant. On the night the villagers attacked Gemming was unable to find Ah Lam; when he saw her in the well with their baby the next day, he fled the village in fear. Having no reason to stay in the village he fled for the United States, leaving the village and the memories he made their