![]() ![]() ![]() Yang, a practicing Roman Catholic of Chinese heritage, recently told Good Comics for Kids’ Caleb Mozzocco, “The more I read about the Boxer Rebellion, the more conflicted I felt. That’s what Boxers & Saints, as the books are called collectively, is all about. Each side in a violent conflict has its own perception of what caused the crisis, and even members of the same side can disagree about objectives and the best way to reach them. War is seldom as simple as identifying heroes and villains. Boxers and its companion volume, Saints, tell individual stories about two young people during China’s Boxer Rebellion, but they also inform each other and combine to form a more complete picture of the conflict and what caused it. American Born Chinese creator Gene Luen Yang’s two new graphic novels can be read separately from each other, but that doesn’t mean that they should be. ![]()
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