Boxers & Saints is an innovative new graphic novel series in two volumesNan innovative look at China\'s Boxer Rebellion told from the author of American Born Chinese.
Discover the other side of the Boxer Rebellion in Saints - the companion volume to Boxers..
American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang brings his clear-eyed storytelling and trademark magical realism to the complexities of the Boxer Rebellion and lays bare the foundations of extremism, rebellion, and faith.
Boxers & Saints is an innovative new graphic novel in two volumes - the parallel stories of two young people caught up on opposite sides of a violent rift.
Little Bao is fighting for the glory of China, but at what cost? So many are dying, including thousands of secondary devils - Chinese citizens who have converted to Christianity.
But nothing is simple.
Against all odds, this grass-roots rebellion is violently successful.
Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers - commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from foreign devils.
Little Bao has had enough.
Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants.
A New York Times bestseller China,1898.
Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People\'s Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what\'s popularly known as the MacArthur Genius Grant.
Boxers & Saints is an innovative new graphic novel series in two volumesNan innovative look at China\'s Boxer Rebellion told from the author of American Born Chinese
