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This graphic novel, the first in a duology about the Boxer Rebellion, took my breath away, violently, depressingly, Fun-Home style (but with a lot more sword-fighting). I knew nothing about the Boxer Rebellion other than its name, and all I'd heard of the book was that it was a literary-quality graphic novel by an author of color. I picked it up for our classroom library in an effort to increase the number of Asian and Asian-American authors we have available. And then I read it, and it is very,
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This just didn't work for me. I can see that Yang wanted to write something "important" and he gave it a good go, and it worked for a lot of other people. But for me ... nope. I didn't know much about the Boxer Rebellion before I started reading this (except that it was an uprising in China), and I still don't know much about the Boxer rebellion. I really doubt it was a bunch of deluded boys inspired by broken statuary and a few country punks stealing food, and somehow powered by ancient gods. T
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Boxers and Saints #1.
The Boxer Rebellion took place in China during the 1890s. Gene Luen Yang tells the story of this bloody war in two parts, the first from the perspective of Little Bao, a young Chinese boy who learns kung fu and how to use the power of the ancient Chinese gods. He eventually recruits an army (the Boxers) to defend his village and the rest of the countryside from foreign missionaries.
In his quest to free China from these "foreign devils," Little Bao becomes a person he can no ...more
The Boxer Rebellion took place in China during the 1890s. Gene Luen Yang tells the story of this bloody war in two parts, the first from the perspective of Little Bao, a young Chinese boy who learns kung fu and how to use the power of the ancient Chinese gods. He eventually recruits an army (the Boxers) to defend his village and the rest of the countryside from foreign missionaries.
In his quest to free China from these "foreign devils," Little Bao becomes a person he can no ...more
Really well done.
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