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Boxers gene luen yang6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Where would a Chinese American Catholic’s loyalties lie? Would they be with the people featured in the first volume of the diptych Boxers, downtrodden Chinese peasants fighting against foreign oppressors and intolerant missionaries and priests? Or would they be with the protagonists of the second book, Saints, brave and well-meaning Christian men, women and children (western and Chinese) slaughtered by the violent and bloody uprising?Īfter decades of humiliating foreign colonial control under the UK, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Austria and the US, a nationalist movement comprised largely of Chinese peasants and farmers arose. What intrigued me most at first about Boxers & Saints, Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel about the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, was how the author would deal with the material’s inherent moral dilemma. First Second Books, recommended for High School and Up. evil slugfest.īoxers & Saints, written and illustrated by Gene Luen Yang. ![]() Although Gene Yang envisions a similarity between the Boxers (once transformed into their mythological hero aspects) and modern superheroes, BOXERS & SAINTS is far from a simple good vs. ![]()
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