![]() In Boxers, Little Bao, a peasant third son joins the Boxers and rises to a position of leadership in the mystically inspired society of young Chinese men fighting to rid China of the “Foreign Devils” (Western soldiers and Christian missionaries) and punish the “Secondary Devils” (the Chinese converts to Christianity). ![]() Like in his National Book Award Finalist and Printz Award winning American Born Chinese (First Second, 2007), in Boxers and Saints Yang explores issues of identity and cultural conflict with humor and truth, using skilled illustrations and the layered storytelling of the graphic novel form to infuse the stories with added dimension.īoxers and Saints is a two-volume graphic novel (sold separately and packaged together as a set), which explores the Boxer Rebellion in China at the turn of the 20th century through two very different adolescent point of view characters. ![]() While it did not claim the top prize, it’s easy to see why Gene Luen Yang’s latest work, the two-volume set Boxers and Saints (First Second, 2013), was a finalist for this year’s National Book Award. ![]()
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