Red Lanterns (Boxer Uprising)
The Red Lanterns were a women's fighting group organized during the Boxer Uprising of 1900. Villagers said these women had supernatural powers which helped to protect the male Boxers and fight against foreign enemies.
Red Lanterns (Boxer Uprising)
Some historians, such as Joseph Esherick, interpret this image of the Siege at Beicang Cathedral as the Red Lanterns being protected during the attack on Northern Cathedral in the center of the image. Other scholars, such as Jane Elliot and Paul Cohen, see this image as some Red Lanterns protecting the Boxers and other Red Lanterns with a magical rope or balloon-like device.
The Boxers, officially known as the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (traditional Chinese: 義和拳; simplified Chinese: 义和拳; pinyin: Yìhéquán; Wade–Giles: I4-ho2-ch'üan2) among other names, were a Chinese secret society based in Northern China that carried out the Boxer Rebellion from 1899 to 1901.
Captured Boxer fighters during the Boxer Rebellion in Tianjin (1901)