Twain–Ament indemnities controversy
Controversy in 1900 over missionary activity in China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Twain–Ament indemnities controversy was a major cause célèbre in the United States of America in 1901 as a consequence of the published reactions of American humorist Mark Twain to reports of Rev. William Scott Ament and other missionaries collecting indemnities (in excess of losses) from Chinese people in the aftermath of the Boxer Uprising.
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