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Boxers & Saints (Boxers & Saints #1-2)

Gene Luen Yang

Paperback | Pages: 512 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 1579 Users | 282 Reviews

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Original Title:	Boxers & Saints
ISBN:	1596439246 (ISBN13: 9781596439245)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/boxerssaintsboxedset/GeneYang
Series:	Boxers & Saints #1-2
Setting:	China
Literary Awards:	Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2013), Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee for Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17) (2014), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novels & Comics (2013)

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Boxers & Saints Boxed Set Edition

One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work.

In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.
 
But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.

Boxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. It offers a penetrating insight into not only one of the most controversial episodes of modern Chinese history, but into the very core of our human nature. Gene Luen Yang is rightly called a master of the comics form, and this book will cement that reputation.
 
This boxed set includes the trade paperback Boxers as well as the trade paperback Saints, packaged together in one slipcase.

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Title	:	Boxers & Saints (Boxers & Saints #1-2)
Author	:	Gene Luen Yang
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Boxed Set
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	September 10th 2013 by First Second
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. China

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I got the box set and read both volumes together, and I can't imagine reading it any other way. I love how Yang tells the story of the conflict from both sides. Makes me want to learn more about the Boxer Rebellion.

Entertaining. Loved the simple art style and how the two separate tales are tied together.However, I thought the Boxers segment was a lot better than the Saints.

Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints is a morally complex look at China around 1894 to the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. No one is totally good nor evil, and what starts off as a fairly straight forward proposition to rid China of "foreign devils" rapidly becomes more and more complicated. I am again impressed at how the graphic novel can be a medium to convey a complex and nuanced story. Also I liked the mixing in of references to The Romance of Three Kingdoms, the Oath of the Peach Garden, Chinese

I read Boxers first, and I really really liked it until he started killing the christians. He does it without explaining why he feel obligated to do it, and it feels very wrong. This guy is supposed to be the protagonist, we're supposed to like him!Saints goes a similar way, I almost liked the main character, but she makes bad choices as well. Hers are justified a little more though.Visually I liked these books a lot though. Their facial expression looked a little fake, but it was really good

THIS IS SO GOOD I CAN'T EVEN.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?Gene Luen Yangs Boxers & Saints is a two-volume graphic novel about The Boxer Rebellion in China at the turn of the 20th century. Although each book can be read as standalone, they work best as a set because they tell parallel stories of two Chinese bumpkins caught up on opposite sides of the same war.The first volume, Boxers, follows Little Bao, a poor Chinese village boy who grows up witnessing foreign soldiers and missionaries bully, rob and kill Chinese peasants. With

Stunning presentation, brings new layer to important history