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Boxers

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Penciller(s): Gene Luen Yang

Inker(s): Gene Luen Yang

Colorist(s): Lark Pien

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Character(s): Little Bao; Ch'in Shih-Huang [Shih-Huang Ti]

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Notes: Cover design by Colleen AF Venable

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First Line: Boxers

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Writer(s): Gene Luen Yang

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First Line: Boxers

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First Line: Northern Shan-tung Province, China 1894

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Writer(s): Gene Luen Yang

Penciller(s): Gene Luen Yang

Inker(s): Gene Luen Yang

Colorist(s): Lark Pien

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Genres: historical

Character(s): Little Bao; Big Brother; Second Brother; opera performers; opera mask girl; father [Lee]; Grandma Crooked; Father Bey; Chinese Christian thug; constable; Kuan-yu [Kwan-yu]; European soldiers

First Line: Spring is my favorite time of year.

Synopsis: European soldiers, a Catholic priest, and Chinese Christian thugs torment a village in Shan-tung, and the national government is powerless to intervene.

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First Line: Northern Shan-tung Province, China 1898

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Writer(s): Gene Luen Yang

Penciller(s): Gene Luen Yang

Inker(s): Gene Luen Yang

Colorist(s): Lark Pien

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Genres: historical

Character(s): Little Bao; Big Brother [Lee Hun-tai]; Second Brother [Lee Chuan-tai]; Hong Kao-ling; father [Lee]; Grandma Crooked; constable; Bing Wong-bing; Red Lantern Chu; Master Big Belly

First Line: At first, we barely even notice the rain.

Synopsis: Red Lantern Chu comes to the village and performs healings following a disastrous flood. He trains the young men in kung fu and takes a detachment to fight Chinese Christian in another village. Little Bao demands to accompany the expedition, but Red Lantern sends him to Master Big Belly for further training.

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First Line: Northern Shan-tung Province, China Late Summer 1899

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Writer(s): Gene Luen Yang

Penciller(s): Gene Luen Yang

Inker(s): Gene Luen Yang

Colorist(s): Lark Pien

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Genres: historical

Character(s): Little Bao; Big Brother [Lee Hun-tai]; Second Brother [Lee Chuan-tai]; Hong Kao-ling; Chao Sun-sun; father [Lee]; Grandma Crooked; Headman; imperial soldiers; Red Lantern Chu; Master Big Belly; Ch'in Shih-huang [Shih-huang Ti]

First Line: Just about every other day, I go up the mountain to visit Master Big Belly (that's his name for himself, not mine).

Synopsis: Master Big Belly trains Little Bao in kung fu, and in mystic arts, until the detachment comes home. They report victory over the Chinese Christians; but that victory was followed by imperial repression, and the death of Red Lantern, in accord with European demands. Imperial troops seize the village men who attacked the Christians, but the death of Master Big Belly unleashes mystic power in Little Bao. Channeling the deified First Emperor [Ch'in Shih-huang Ti] he leads the slaughter of the imperial troops, and is acknowledged as the leader.

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First Line: Northern Shan-tung Province, China Fall 1899

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Writer(s): Gene Luen Yang

Penciller(s): Gene Luen Yang

Inker(s): Gene Luen Yang

Colorist(s): Lark Pien

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Genres: historical

Character(s): Little Bao; Big Brother [Lee Hun-tai]; Second Brother [Lee Chuan-tai]; Hong Kao-ling; Chao Sun-sun; Chinese Christian thugs; Mei-wen; Guan Yu; Chang Fei; Sun Wu-kong; Chu Ba-jei; Ch'in Shih-huang [Shi-huang Ti]; Mu Gu-ying; imperial troops; magistrate

First Line: Mercy, sirs!

Synopsis: Little Bao and his followers save a young woman from Chinese Christian thugs. Obsessed by Mei-wen, he keeps his men in her village and trains the village men. Tension threatens the brotherhood, several of whom desire Mei-wen. Ch'in Shih-huang appears to Bao, demanding that he ruthlessly sacrifice everything and everyone for the cause of China. When imperial troops attack, Little Bao and his men kill them all, then venture forth with their new recruits, not as a small band but as an army. Mei-wen too fought the imperial troops, but Bao orders her to stay home.

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First Line: Southern Hebei Province, China Spring 1900

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Writer(s): Gene Luen Yang

Penciller(s): Gene Luen Yang

Inker(s): Gene Luen Yang

Colorist(s): Lark Pien

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Genres: historical

Character(s): Little Bao; Big Brother [Lee Hun-tai]; Second Brother [Lee Chuan-tai]; Hong Kao-ling; Chao Sun-sun; Chinese Christians; Mei-wen; Guan Yu; Chang Fei; Sun Wu-kong; Chu Ba-jei; Ch'in Shih-huang [Shi-huang Ti]; Mu Gu-ying; imperial troops; Lu Bai; missionaries; European troops; General Tung; Kansu Braves; Father Bey; Vibiana [opera mask girl]

First Line: We travel from village to village on our way to Peking, adding dozens to our number with each stop.

Synopsis: Bao's growing followers encounter imperial General Tung, who states that the Empress is pleased with Bao's attacks on the foreigners, and adds that so long as they support the Empress, imperial troops will not fight them. Bao kills a large group of missionaries, European soldiers, and Chinese Christians, but spares the women and children, enraging Ch'in Shih-huang. Bao is wounded, and his brothers killed, capturing a Christian town. After Mei-wen nurses him, he burns the Christian women and children alive.

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First Line: Peking, China Summer 1900

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Writer(s): Gene Luen Yang

Penciller(s): Gene Luen Yang

Inker(s): Gene Luen Yang

Colorist(s): Lark Pien

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Genres: historical

Character(s): Little Bao; Chinese Christians; Mei-wen; Ch'in Shih-huang [Shi-huang Ti]; Mu Gu-ying; Lu Pai; European troops; Bing Wong-bing; Prince Tuan; Baron von Kettler (German ambassador); General Tung

First Line: It takes us the better part of a day to bury our fallen Brother-Disciples.

Synopsis: Bao and his followers enter Peking, where a joyous Mei-wen shows him the marvelous Hanlin Academy Library. Fighting explodes, abetted by the government. Bao's forces besiege the Legation Quarter until Ch'in Shih-huang orders him to gain entry by burning the library. He hesitates until the enraged First Emperor tells him that the time has passed. He burns it anyway to the disgust of Mei-wen, who joins a foreign man in rescuing books until the roof caves in on them. As Bao's forces begin their attack the foreign relief force arrives. In short order, Bao and all his followers are dead.

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First Line: Further Reading

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Penciller(s): Gene Luen Yang

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First Line: A masterful work of historical fiction.

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