Luigi Barzini, a correspondent for the Corriere della Sera in China, had this comment about the violent repression of the Boxers rebellion in 1900 by the Western powers, like Germany, UK, France, United States, Russia as well as Japan: “It is easy to see that our children will pay heavily for our triumphs!”. A lot has happened in the meantime, during more than one century, although 100 years are a very short time compared to China’s history. However, the troubled history that started after the bloody Western dominion has proceeded in a see-saw up to bringing the country among the world's top powers concerning its contribution to the modernity, its penetration inside the most economic important markets, and in making the Asian history a strong point in the history of human progress. It is a country that with incredible ups and downs and thanks to its human resources, has earned itself a place of absolute importance in a very short timeframe. After the bloody Boxers rebellion, which a possible photo exhibition from our The Face of Asia Archive may be dedicated to, Chines history has marked the advent of nationalism, the Sun Yat Sen’s Kuomintang, the dominance of warlords, the Japanese invasion, Chang Kai Shek’s escape and the advent of Mao with his legendary “Long March” in 1949 that led to the People’s Republic. Concerning the Boxers and having in mind the idea of letting people enjoy some rare historical pictures, please note that the Archive is able to expose pictures that show not only the cruelty of the people who are in power, but also what China had meant for the West: an immense field to exploit brutally without posing any constraints or ethic bounds. Not only Germans, but also the soldiers of all other countries arrived in China pretending to be protectors of civilization, according to the suggestions of the German Kaiser. During August of 1900, the flag of “Western Civilization” would have been lowered in mourning. Beijing was reduced to a heap of smoking rubble. On the roadsides were piled corpses of Chinese people killed by the soldiers of the seven “Civilized” countries like exercise. Much more could be said about the supposed superiority of the West in its policy towards other countries. This had a strong effect on the birth of a nationalist consciousness of the Chinese people which in many occasions turned into hatred for foreigners and even today, in a globalized world, these feelings are still present in the way Chinese people interact with Western people, although it is shown in small and latent signs. In my opinion, this is widely justified because “what happens today is nothing but a consequence of what happened yesterday”. These are pictures that are hard to see, but they are emblematic of life at that time which left no room for different choices to neither bloody repressors nor repressed, the latter being the majority of Chinese people.