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320 pages, Paperback
First published September 18, 2015
“And what do you know about the Chinese people who were killed here?” Julián Herbert asks anyone who will listen.
Early in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned Mexico’s ruling party, some three hundred Chinese immigrants—close to half of the Cantonese residents of the newly founded city of Torreón—were massacred over the course of three days. It is considered the largest slaughter of Chinese people in the history of the Americas, an attempted extermination that was followed by denial or empty statements of regret.