“I have always wanted to write a book on the Boxer martyrs and dedicate it to my great-grandparents. That will never be, I fear. But I do not regret my research. Did you know that whole families were beheaded? A seventeen-year-old had his body cut into pieces and parts nailed to a wall in Tangshan. One missionary in Shanxi Province was stoned, stripped, and run over with a cart until her spine was broken. A teacher at the Zunhua Girls School, Hebei Province, was shot, stabbed, sliced, and burned to death. Over three hundred Christians were beheaded in the northeastern provinces. Others were
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