According to esherick, why did the boxer rebellion become such a famous historical event?

Esherick saw the Boxer Rebellion as part of the mass nationalist movement that was sweeping the globe. People were coming together and seeing themselves as a united nation, not just different individual states. Different countries and regions came to this realization at different times. The Chinese people were tired of the heavy colonialism that was in their country and the large influence that foreign nations had. They fought to take that back. They wanted to control themselves.