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...word Boxer comes from a mistranslation of the Chinese I ho Gh'uan, meaning The Patriotic United Fists, a secret society which originally was anti-dynastic, and had nothing to do with pugilism in spite of some " peculiar calisthenic exercises." At the end of the 19th Century the society came under the influence of the Empress Dowager, who persuaded them that the foreigner and his. spheres of interest-and not the Manchu dynasty-was responsible for the ills of China, and incited them to fight the invaders of their land-hence the Boxer Rising...