Abstract:

Abstract： In order to promote the research for the Boxers Movement, both Chinese Research Association of the Boxers Movement and History Department of Shanghai University have jointly held an academic seminar for the Boxers Movement and War. The scholars present have a discussion of such hot topics as the Boxers and the ChineseandWestern cultures, the Boxers War and the EightPower Allied Forces War Against China, the Boxers Movement and the social transformation, the Boxers Movement and nationalism, as well as the 2010 meeting subject and content. What' s more, they plot out the new ideas for the type of the seminar, that is, the meeting being held both at Shangdong University and at Shanghai University, and also make a lot of suggestions, for examples, broadening the horizon of the research for the Boxers Movement, using for reference the new methods of social sciences, and opening up the new historical materials, especially the documental materials and oversea materials.

Key words: Key words：  the Boxers Movement; Chinese and Western cultures; the transformation of the society; nationalism; Christianity