So the more I looked into this historical event, the more I felt like it really embodied a clash between identities, the clash between Eastern and Western ways of looking at things, that I’ve experienced throughout my life. The Chinese government issued a statement protesting them because, from their point of view, the Roman Catholic Church was honoring these traitors to Chinese culture. Soon, I also realized that the canonizations were somewhat controversial. Saints tells Vibianas story, and the companion volume, Boxers, tells the story of Little Bao, a young man who joins the Boxer Rebellion. When I looked into the lives of these newly canonized saints, I discovered that many of them had been martyred during the Boxer Rebellion, so that’s sort of what set me up. An unwanted fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family. My home church was incredibly excited about the Vatican’s announcement because this was the first time that this deeply Western Church had acknowledged the Chinese. From American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang: an innovative look at China's Boxer Rebellion told from two points of view, in two companion volumes. There are a hundred and twenty saints in China, eighty-seven of whom were ethnically Chinese. I first became interested in the Boxer Rebellion in 2000, when Pope John Paul II canonized a group of saints in China. Gene Luen Yang’s breakthrough graphic novel, American Born Chinese, was hugely ambitious: a modern coming-of-age story filtered through the transformational powers of mythology and.
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