{"product_id":"boxers-saints-boxed-set-9781596439245","title":"Boxers \u0026 Saints Boxed Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eGene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoxers \u0026amp; Saints \u003c\/i\u003eBoxed Set Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn two volumes, \u003ci\u003eBoxers \u0026amp; Saints\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoxers \u0026amp; Saints\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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