A first-hand medical and eyewitness account of the siege of foreign legations in Peking, combining diary entries, official reports, and personal reflections to trace the rise of the Boxer movement, incidents leading to open conflict, and daily life under siege. The narrator documents military and civilian responses, medical and logistical work performed by various national staffs, and contemporary decrees from the imperial court, supplemented by photographs and annotations. Interleaved are contemporaneous cables, field diaries, and post-siege commentary that aim to reconstruct both immediate events and the social and political currents that precipitated the confrontation.