2019 Year 12 IB Extended Essays

Conclusion Although Katipunan and the Boxer society both failed to achieve their immediate goals, the tactics which they employed would inspire later movements which succeeded. In the Philippines, the struggle for independence forged a Filipino identity and paved the way for independence via more peaceful means. The Boxer Rebellion would provide a model from which Mao Zedong and the communist party could base their peasant revolution and in the darkest hours of the Chinese Civil War, the communist party would regroup in Shanxi province just as the Qing court would. The communist party would later emerge from Shanxi to conquer China and finally end foreign influence in the country.