随着美国布什总统访华,发生在一百多年前的几桩相关历史公案——“义和团运动”、“八国联军”、“庚子赔款”、“辛丑条约”以及由此而引起的“退款办学”交涉等等,在境内外的不同媒体上又不断有人提起。但由于所持立场及所掌握的资料各有不同,因而所得结论往往相差悬殊。而分歧最大处莫过于:当时的美国政府及其若干政要在这一系列事件中所持 With the U.S. President Bush’s visit to China, a handful of related historical cases occurred more than 100 years ago - the “Boxer Rebellion”, the “Eight-Power Allied Forces”, the “Gengzi Indemnity,” the Xinchu Treaty, and the consequent “Refund school” negotiations, etc., in different media at home and abroad have been repeatedly raised. However, due to the different positions held and the available information, the conclusions drawn often differ widely. The biggest difference is that the U.S. government and some of its dignitaries at the time held this series of incidents