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Background: Boxer Defeat and Reform Imperative The defeat of the Qing in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 left the imperial government deeply humiliated and financially crippled. The Boxer ProtocolBoxer Protocol Full Description:The punishing peace treaty signed in 1901 between the Qing Empire and the Eight-Nation Alliance following the defeat of the Boxer Uprising. It imposed a crippling indemnity on China and allowed foreign troops to be stationed in the capital, effectively reducing the Qing government to a vassal of Western powers. The Boxer Protocol was the most humiliating of the unequal treaties. It required China to pay 450 million taels of silver…