Cao Futian was a charismatic Chinese leader of the Yìhéquán, or Boxers who organized attacks on Chinese Christians and foreign missionaries during the late Qing dynasty's Boxer movement.
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Cao Futian was a charismatic Chinese leader of the Yìhéquán, or Boxers who organized attacks on Chinese Christians and foreign missionaries during the late Qing dynasty's Boxer movement. When the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance forced the imperial court to change from support of the Boxers to suppression, government troops captured and beheaded him in 1901.
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Activists
Type
Activist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1850 to 1901 · aged 51
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