5/29/2023 0 Comments Yang boxers and saints![]() ![]() Yang actually seems more influenced by American animation traditions. Yang has a fairly limited style which does not lend itself to the martial arts, especially given what a lot of other people have done with them in Manga. Early on Bao discovers that his dad is in fact a gongfu hero. Visually I am not sure Yang’s style works as well as it could with the subject matter. The main focus of Boxers is Bao, who grows from a random peasant boy to a redresser of wrongs who will save China and maybe even get the girl. If you want to show your students pictures of Chinese peasants being flooded out of their homes Cohen’s History in Three Keys was our main text and it is in Yang’s bibliography, as is Esherick’s Origins of the Boxer Uprising. ![]() How good is it? Well he has done his research. ![]() This is a two volume graphic novel that looks at the Boxer event. I did a class that focused on the Boxers last semester, and one of the things I talked about was Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints. ![]()
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