Yang provides an understandable and sympathetic treatment of the Boxer Rebellion in China from the very end of the nineteenth century into the beginning of the twentieth. This first volume of this two-volume work is told from the point of view of Little Bao. Bao is the youngest son of a man who was looked up to by all of the residents of their village, until, while on his way to protest the treatment of their people by Christian missionaries and their followers, he is savagely beaten by foreign soldiers. Bao's brothers join a nascent resistance movement, and though Bao is told he is too young, he trains in secret and ends up as one of the movement's leaders. The Saints volume covers the same ground from the Chinese converts' point of view. Good art and an engaging story.
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