![]() ![]() Boxers & Saints releases in September from First Second Books. Sojourners senior associate editor Julie Polter interviewed Yang in July. He lives in Oakland, Calif., and teaches in the Hamline University MFA program in writing for children and young adults. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature and to be nominated for a National Book Award. ![]() Yang’s 2006 work American Born Chinese was the first graphic novel to both win the Michael L. It was spearheaded by the “Righteous and Harmonious Fists,” a peasant secret society whose members practiced martial arts-Westerners, observing their exercises, dubbed them “Boxers.” The Boxers targeted foreign officials, merchants, and missionaries, as well as Chinese Christian converts.Ĭomic book author and artist Gene Luen Yang illuminates two very different fictional perspectives on this conflict in his new two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints: The first volume, Boxers, tells the story of Bao, a boy who becomes a Boxer leader after seeing ongoing abuse by Westerners Saintsfollows Four-Girl, an unwanted daughter who converts to Catholicism, takes the name Vibiana, and must flee the Boxers. ![]() IN 1900, long-simmering resentment over increasing foreign presence and exploitation in China boiled over into a full-scale uprising, the Boxer Rebellion. ![]()
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