![]() ![]() ![]() She finds inspiration in Saint Joan of Arc, and creates an identity for herself as a Christian warrior and martyr. The second volume, Saints, tells the story of a young peasant girl who is rejected and uncared for by her village but finds acceptance and support from Christian missionaries. He joins (and later becomes a leader of) a resistance group, the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fist, that aims to protect their national and spiritual identity and remove foreigners and Christian converts from China. Little Bao is a poor Chinese peasant who experiences oppression and poverty at the hands of foreign soldiers and missionaries. ![]() The first volume, Boxers, focuses on a young man named Little Bao. Gene Luen Yang’s two-volume graphic novel series, Boxers and Saints, tells an intertwined story about two young people on opposite sides of the Boxer Rebellion in China at the beginning of the 20 th century. ![]()
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