![]() ![]() The next time he encounters Vibiana is in the heat of the uprising, and he kills her for her adherence to the Catholic faith, shortly before his enemies toss him into a pit of corpses. ![]() Romantic pursuits are not in his immediate future, however, and the first emperor god Ch’in Shih-huang demands that Little Bao wreak vengeance on foreign devils and their Chinese accomplices. ![]() In the volume Boxers, Little Bao encounters the scowling face of a girl (whom readers will later come to know as Vibiana), and instead of seeing ugliness, he sees the beautiful mask of a god in the operas he loves. In this set of companion graphic novels, two teens struggle to discern and fulfill their destinies as foreigners intervene in China’s affairs, and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 attempts to purify the homeland of alien influence. ![]()
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