![]() ![]() ![]() I don't even know if I could have told you what country it occurred in prior to reading these books. I knew nothing of the Boxer Rebellion other than its name. Grades 7 & Up Boxers & Saints Teaching Guide: Ä«oxers and Saints is a graphic novel historical fiction of the Boxer Rebellion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Boxers & Saints 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. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity. 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. But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. ![]()
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