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The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
Oxford University Press · Scott Zesch
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Historic crimes & investigations · 24 October 1871Open article references →
The Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871
Calle de los Negros and old Chinatown, represented at El Pueblo · United States
Why editors use it hereBook-length archival history of Chinese Los Angeles, the massacre, prosecutions, and the city's racial order.
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On 24 October 1871, a dispute within Los Angeles's small Chinese community and the shooting of a white bystander became the pretext for a mob assault on Chinatown.
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Trigger and conditions
Gunfire broke out during a conflict between Chinese factions connected to the alleged abduction of a woman known as Yut Ho.
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Uncertainty
Institutional sources differ between seventeen and eighteen Chinese people killed.
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Why it matters
The killings show that mob violence depended on more than momentary rage.
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