![]() ![]() 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. 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. American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang brings his clear-eyed storytelling and trademark magical realism to the complexities of the Boxer Rebellion and. 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. ![]() There are a hundred and twenty saints in China, eighty-seven of whom were ethnically Chinese. In China in 1898 bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. I first became interested in the Boxer Rebellion in 2000, when Pope John Paul II canonized a group of saints in China. ![]()
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