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Saints concludes the story began in Yang's Boxers but recounts the life of Four Girl who joins up with the Catholics and their converts as a means of escaping her poor family life. Rather than focusing on the religious perspective of the missionaries and their converts, the story shows instead how some Chinese villagers came to support the "foreign devils" after the traditional village way of life ostracized them or failed to offer a promising future. Just as Little Bao had visions of Chinese di
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I was hoping this would somehow redeem Boxers, but it did not. I was equally disappointed in this one. Actually, I was MORE disappointed in this one. This shows the "Christian side" of the Boxer rebellion, and the Christians are literally saints here, they don't do a thing wrong, they are unjustly persecuted and slaughtered, all for the crime of trying to live in China. I doubt it was that simple. I enjoyed Four-girl's take on Christianity, and how she completely misunderstood the catechisms (sh
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Saints is the companion book to Boxers. It tells of the Boxer rebellion from the perspective of a Chinese Christian. This concept had so much potential. After reading Boxers, where Christians and foreign missionaries came out looking pretty bad, (although the Boxers didn't look so great either) I was interested to read the story from a different perspective. There are several scenes that appear in both books, and it seemed like a really interesting concept to see what led the characters to thei
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