OL17332999W Page_number_confidence 96.18 Pages 342 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210616213419 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 508 Scandate 20210616051754 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781596433595 Tts_version 4. This boxed set includes the trade paperback Boxers as well as the trade paperback Saints, packaged together in one slipcase.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:03:59 Associated-names Pien, Lark, illustrator Boxid IA40137616 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
Gene Luen Yang is rightly called a master of the comics form, and this book will cement that reputation. It offers a penetrating insight into not only one of the most controversial episodes of modern Chinese history, but into the very core of our human nature. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.īoxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. Boxers & Saints (My Kindle Review) This comic duology by Yang tells two personal stories set during the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) in China when there was an uprising of peasants ousting foreigners and their religions. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.īut in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work.
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