![]() The group members, when they are fighting, turn into various Chinese characters of Chinese literature such as the Pig Demon and Monkey King, a character explored in Yang’s past graphic novels, from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. The locals band together to form a group to fight the foreigners and the Christian influences. Little Bao’s world is shaken up after a Christian missionary visits and offends the locals by destroying the idol representing an earth God. He sees a girl in the passing distance, who becomes the centerpiece of the story in the Saints novel. Although each book is sold separately, they are intended to be companion pieces to each other, even so far as to have covers which can be matched together to form one larger cover.īoxers starts off peaceful with the introduction of our main character, Little Bao. Boxers tells of the pro-nationalist point of view while Saints tells of the Chinese Christian point of view. ![]() ![]() The stories are told through two characters, Little Bao and Four-Girl, based on the historical and violent Boxer Rebellion movement in China that started in the late 1800s in which pro-nationalists tried to rid China of foreigners and Christian missionaries. ![]() Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints are companion books telling two stories from opposite viewpoints. ![]()
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