Exploring the media coverage of the Boxer War in Western countries as well as in Chinese
provinces this international volume identifies media as the key link between a historical
event and its memory. Moving beyond a narrow definition of media the contributions include a
number of media types that have been rarely if at all studied before in this context - for
example the analysis of German soldiers' letters parliamentary debates as a form of
performative medium games and toys periodicals adventure novels and school textbooks as
well as archival practices of storing and ordering records - examining the dynamics between
various types of media in a plurimedial setting explicitly including comparative research.
Tracing the relationship between media and time this volume also adresses the question how
historical memory is transmitted via media to present times and how the Boxer War became a
historical point of reference in its own right.
