Editing Boxer Protocol (section)

== The clauses ==
[[File:《辛丑条约》签字时的情景.jpg|thumb|250px|Signing of the Boxer Protocol. Left, from left to right: F.M Knobel from Netherlands (only see his hands); K. Jutaro from Japan; G. S. Raggi from Italy; Joostens from Belgium; C. von Walhborn from Austria-Hungary; B. J. Cologán from Spain; M. von Giers from Russia; A. Mumm for German Empire; E. M. Satow from Britain; W. W. Rockhill from US; P. Beau from France; Lian Fang; Li Hongzhang; Prince Qing]]
[[File:Within historic grounds of the Forbidden City in Pekin, China, on November 28 celebrated the victory of the Allies., ca. - NARA - 532582.jpg|thumb|250px|The Eight-Nation Alliance during a celebration ceremony inside the [[Forbidden City]] after the signing of the Boxer Protocol. Immediately identifiable flags in picture: {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]], {{flagicon|French Third Republic}} [[French Third Republic|France]], {{flagicon|German Empire}} [[German Empire|Germany]], {{flagicon|Russian Empire}} [[Russian Empire|Russia]] and {{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Empire of Japan|Japan]], 1901.]]

450&nbsp;million [[tael]]s of fine silver (around 18,000 tonnes, worth approx. [[USD|US$]]333&nbsp;million or [[Pound sterling|£]]67&nbsp;million at the [[exchange rate]]s of the time) were to be paid as [[indemnity]] over 39 years to the eight nations involved.<ref name="spence">{{cite book |last1=Spence |first1=Jonathan D. |author-link=Jonathan Spence |title=[[The Search for Modern China]] |date=1991 |publisher=Norton |location=New York |isbn=0393307808 |edition=1st pbk.}}</ref>

The Chinese paid the indemnity in gold on a rising scale with a 4% [[interest|interest charge]] until the debt was [[Amortizing loan|amortized]] on December 31, 1940. After 39 years, the amount was almost 1&nbsp;billion taels (precisely 982,238,150),<ref name="spence" /> or ≈{{convert|1180000000|ozt|t|abbr=off}} at 1.2 ozt/tael.

The sum was to be distributed as follows: Russia 28.97%, Germany 20.02%, France 15.75%, Britain 11.25%, Japan 7.73%, United States 7.32%, Italy 7.32%, Belgium 1.89%, Austria-Hungary 0.89%, Netherlands 0.17%, Spain 0.03%, Portugal 0.02%, Sweden and Norway 0.01%.<ref>{{cite book |publisher = M.E. Sharpe |title = A History of Modern Shanghai Banking |ol=8054799M |last = Ji |first=Zhaojin |date = March 2003 |isbn=9780765610027|page=75}}</ref><!-- Also, additional 16,886,708 taels were paid locally in 17 provinces. By 1938, 652.37&nbsp;million taels had been paid {{full|date=September 2018}}{{Dubious|reason=More than original, and loans were forgiven|date=July 2017}}. -->

=== Other clauses included ===
* To prohibit the importation of arms and ammunition, as well as materials for the production of arms or ammunition, for two years, extensible further two years as the Powers saw necessary.
* The destruction of [[Taku Forts]].<ref name="Sondhaus">{{cite book |last1=Sondhaus |first1=Lawrence |title=Naval warfare, 1815–1914 |date=2001 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780415214773}}</ref>
* [[Peking Legation Quarter|Legation Quarters]] occupied by the Powers shall be considered a special area reserved for their use under the exclusive control, in which Chinese shall not have the right to reside and may be defensible. China recognized the right of each Power to maintain a permanent guard in the said Quarters for the defense of its Legation.
* Boxers and government officials were to be punished for crimes or attempted crimes against foreign governments or their nationals. Many were sentenced to execution, deported to [[Xinjiang under Qing rule|Xinjiang]], imprisoned for life, forced to commit suicide, or suffered posthumous degradation.
* The "Office in Charge of Affairs of All Nations" (''[[Zongli Yamen]]'') was replaced with a Foreign Office, which ranked above the other six boards in the government.
* The Chinese government was to prohibit forever, under pain of death, membership in any anti-foreign society, civil service examinations were to be suspended for five years in all areas where foreigners were massacred or subjected to cruel treatment, and provincial and local officials would personally be held responsible for any new anti-foreign incidents.
* The [[emperor of China]] was to convey his regrets to the [[German emperor]] for the assassination of [[Klemens von Ketteler|Baron von Ketteler]].
* The emperor of China was to appoint Na't'ung to be his [[envoy extraordinary]] and direct him to also convey to the [[emperor of Japan]] his expression of regrets and that of his government at the assassination of Mr. Sugiyama.
* The Chinese government would have to erect on the spot of the assassination of Baron von Ketteler a commemorative arch inscribed in [[Latin]], German, and Chinese.
* Concede the right to the Powers to station troops in the following places:<ref>Pamphlets on the Chinese-Japanese War, 1939–1945. [Published 1937]
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937–45. Digitized May 30, 2007. No ISBN.</ref>

{|class="wikitable"
! Traditional Chinese
! Simplified Chinese
! Pinyin
! Transliterated names from early text using a system that pre-dates Pinyin
|-
| 黃村 || 黄村 || [[Huangcun]] || Huang-tsun
|-
| 郎坊（廊坊） || 郎坊(廊坊) || [[Langfang]] || Lang-fang
|-
| 楊村 || 杨村 || [[Yangcun]] || Yang-tsun
|-
| 天津 || 天津 || [[Tianjin]] || Tien-tsin
|-
| 軍糧城 || 军粮城 || [[Junliangcheng]] || Chun-liang-Cheng
|-
| 塘沽 || 塘沽 || [[Tanggu District|Tanggu]] || Tong-ku
|-
| 蘆臺 || 芦台 || [[Lutai]] || Lu-tai
|-
| 唐山 || 唐山 || [[Tangshan]] || Tong-shan
|-
| 灤州 || 滦州 || [[Luanzhou]] || Lan-chou
|-
| 昌黎 || 昌黎 || [[Changli]] || Chang-li
|-
| 秦皇島 || 秦皇岛 || [[Qinhuangdao]] || Chin-wang Tao
|-
| 山海關 || 山海关 || [[Shanhaiguan District|Shanhaiguan]] || Shan-hai Kuan
|}