How U.S. Reporters Started China's Boxer Rebellion
Journalists are supposed to cover the story, not become it. But in 1900, four ambitious American war correspondents, armed with pens, revolvers, and an appetite for front-page glory, did exactly that. In the desperate pursuit of a scoop deep inside Qing China, they stumbled into a rural village, provoked a sacred site, fired a gun, and, knowingly or not, sparked the chain reaction that helped ignite the Boxer Rebellion. In this episode, we unravel the jaw-dropping tale of how yellow journalism, nationalist rage, cultural ignorance, and frontier bravado collided to fuel one of the most…
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