![]() Graphic novels, which tell a full-length story using the art and storytelling format of comic books, are currently enjoying newfound respectability. In 2013 he published a two-volume epic based on the events of the Boxer Rebellion, Boxers & Saints (First Second Books). For Yang, the son of Chinese immigrants to California, the canonization spurred a strong interest in learning about this historical event. Many of those saints died in the Boxer Rebellion, the late-19th-century peasant uprising in China against the foreign and Christian presence there. “It was the first time the Catholic Church had acknowledged Chinese Catholics in this way,” he says. Graphic novel author Gene Luen Yang recalls his parish’s elation that 88 of the new saints were ethnically Chinese. When Pope John Paul II canonized 120 Catholics from China in 2000, a Chinese American Catholic community celebrated in San Jose, California. An epic quest for cultural identity unfolds in the pages of Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novels. ![]()
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