Little Bao’s father intervenes and the men leave, but they return later with a priest as converts to Christianity as such, they are above the law. They live a relatively peaceful, hardworking life - though, like many other areas of rural China, suffer because of a drought - but then thuggish Chinese strangers arrive and cause trouble. In the space of two years, Chinese rebels fought back against colonization and murdered Westerners, “foreign devils” (Christians), and “secondary devils” (Chinese converts to Christianity) in what would become known as the Boxer Rebellion.īoxers tells the story of Little Bao, a young peasant boy living in rural China. Both books begin in 1898, when Christianity was beginning to take a stronger hold on China. The books are sold as two separate volumes as well as in a boxed set, but the stories run parallel to one another and should definitely be read together. American Born Chinese pretty much guaranteed that I would read anything else Gene Luen Yang created, so when Boxers & Saints came out last year to great critical acclaim, I put the books high on my TBR list.
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