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Boxers (Boxers & Saints, #1)

Gene Luen Yang,

Lark Pien (Inker)

Why we're reading this: Jamboard #ownvoices collection during Gabriella Reyes' presentation: "Decolonizing the Library: Anti-Raci…more
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This graphic novel fictionalizes the events leading up to the Boxer Rebellion in China in the early 1900s. From his origins as a simple villager to his rise as a kung fu fighter, we follow Little Boa's journey through the Chinese countryside as he kills Christians (bloodily) and battles his inner guilt about the violence. He subconsciously transposes beloved gods from Chinese opera onto his compatriots, seeing them (and himself) as archetypes. In his dreams, he's visited by the First Emperor, wh ...more

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