{"id":383,"date":"2019-10-24T02:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T02:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2021-04-22T22:56:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:56:52","slug":"that-should-be-a-movie-the-chinatown-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/24\/that-should-be-a-movie-the-chinatown-war\/","title":{"rendered":"That Should Be A Movie: The Chinatown War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Immigrants looking for the gold of the American Dream become the forgotten victims of the largest mass lynching in American History. Now That Should Be A Movie.<strong> <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s book I would like to pitch as a movie is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chinatown-War-Chinese-Angeles-Massacre-ebook\/dp\/B007OVSJMY\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+chinatown+war&amp;qid=1571362247&amp;sr=8-1\">The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chinatown-War-Chinese-Angeles-Massacre-ebook\/dp\/B007OVSJMY\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+chinatown+war&amp;qid=1571362247&amp;sr=8-1\"> <\/a>by Scott Zesch, from Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11BCCULTURE1-popup.jpg?resize=375%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"384\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=384\" class=\"wp-image-384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11BCCULTURE1-popup.jpg?w=375 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11BCCULTURE1-popup.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story of the Chinese\nand other East Asians in America is an odyssey of tragedy and triumph that gets\nfar less attention than it deserves. For example, the name Chinatown is synonymous\nwith cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. However, the creation and\nhistory of these ethnic enclaves is less known. Today I would like to pay\nattention to the Chinatown in La La Land and the events of October 24, 1871. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the first Chinese immigrants arrived in the wild west town that was 1850s Los Angeles, they settled in the oldest buildings. The area where these buildings stood was called Calle de los Negros, or in the common vernacular, Negro or nigger alley. The country around them was wild, with gunfights, lynchings and vigilante committees fairly common despite the presence of a civil government. By the 1870s, some of the Chinese were involved in this violence to the point that they offered blood money for the death of a sheriff. An American collected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3540\" height=\"2375\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?fit=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"386\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=386\" class=\"wp-image-386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?w=3540 3540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?resize=300%2C201 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?resize=768%2C515 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?resize=1024%2C687 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?resize=1600%2C1073 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?resize=780%2C523 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?w=2160 2160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dPhZeM3.jpg?w=3240 3240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, most of the\nChinese, who were mainly from southern China, had come to Gold Mountain, as\nthey called America, to earn enough honest money to return home and claim a\nbride. They brought with them aspects of their home culture. One aspect was the\nhuiguan, a social organization similar to the Lions Club. Called companies by\nAmerican newspapers, the members of huiguans would provide loans, find jobs and\neven send the bodies of their associates home. On the downside of being part of\na huiguan, a Chinese man could be beat up or robbed simply because he belonged\nto the same company as the person who offended his assailant. The working class\nSee Yup company became the strongest one&nbsp;\nin Los Angeles in the late 1860s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The huiguan were often confused\nby the Americans with the tongos, which were more like the mafia. While their\noriginal purpose was beneficial, they eventually morphed into secret societies\nthat trafficked in extortion, gambling, opium and prostitution. Called the fighting\ntongos, they often engaged each other in gunfights and street battles. Assassins\nknown as highbinders were on their payroll. The huiguan opposed the tongos,\noften paring up with American officials to stop the trafficking of women. The\nfeuds that arose between the <a>tongos and huiguans <\/a>did\nnot help the Chinese image in the eyes of an increasingly suspicious American public.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chinesemensquare.jpg?resize=748%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"387\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=387\" class=\"wp-image-387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chinesemensquare.jpg?w=748 748w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chinesemensquare.jpg?resize=300%2C168 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American public began\nto see all the Chinese as tongos, in the same way some see as Hispanic\nimmigrants as MS-13 gang members. Since the Chinese were more than willing to\nwork, they were accused of stealing jobs. All the ethnic groups in Los Angeles,\nwhite, black, Hispanic, even Native American, openly despised them. It was not\nuncommon for any member of those groups to abuse a Chinese man in public\nwithout consequence. A column appeared the San Francisco newspaper, The Daily\nAlta Californian, entitled \u201cA Dream of an Anti-Chinese Riot.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">We\nhad a dream. We saw that most horrid of horrors, a mob in their frenzy, drunk\nwith blood and whiskey, headed by two notorious demagogues, who called upon the\nmultitude in the name of Christianity and civilization to drive the Chinamen from\nSan Francisco\u2026The leaders of the mob said the day had been a splendid\nsuccess\u2026The name of the city bore a stain that never could be washed out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took the Burlingame\nTreaty between the United States and the Qing Dynasty China to give some basic protections\nto Chinese immigrants in 1868. However, being able to testify in court was not\none of those. In 1854 in The People Vs Hall, the California Supreme Court rule\nthat the Chinese could not testify in court against white people. This ruling\nwas overturned in 1873, but it would be two late for the victims of what came\nto be known as The Night of Horrors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"635\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/67396_chin_wall_md.gif?resize=640%2C635&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"388\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=388\" class=\"wp-image-388\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>The\nevents leading up to the &nbsp;Los Angeles\nMassacre began in November 1870. The barbaric torture and abuse of a Chinese\nwoman named Sing Ye near San Bernardino, by men to whom she was indebted, sparked\noutrage throughout the whole state. In Callo Des Negros, Yo Hing, whose Hong\nChow Company was fighting Sam Yuen\u2019s Nin Yung to fill the void left when the\nSee Yup Company dissolved, falsely accused one of the witnesses so they would\nnot be able to testify against the men who abused Sing Ye. The men were still\nconvicted on the witness of other Chinese. It was the first shot in the year-long\nfeud between Yo Hing and Sam Yuen that would include a young man running away\nwith an older man\u2019s wife, Yut Ho, and marrying her using an American wedding\ncertificate, as well as first time a Chinese female, Ah Mouie, filed a suit in\na Los Angeles court. As the year passed into fall, the battle between the two\ncompanies left the courtrooms and took to the streets. Soon tongo fighters\nbegan arriving from San Francisco, summoned by Sam Yuen. On October 23<sup>rd<\/sup>,\n1871 they attempted to assassinate Yo Hing, who escaped. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On\nthe evening of October 24 one of the San Francisco highbinders, Ah Choy, was\neating on the east side of Calle de los Negros when he heard a commotion\noutside. He stepped out to have a look and was shot and killed by one of Yo\nHing\u2019s henchmen. A policeman, Jesus Bilderrain, with the help of other officers\nand some bystanders, nearly all Hispanic, rushed to the scene and arrested the\ngun men. As they were escorting the highbinders out of the area, the Chinese\nbegan firing on them and at each other. Bilderrain tried to capture one of the\nshooters and was shot in the shoulder. A civilian, Robert Thompson, rushed to\nthe scene to assist the lawmen. As he foolishly entered one of the buildings,\nhe was shot right above the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/where-the-riot-began.jpg?resize=500%2C299&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"389\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=389\" class=\"wp-image-389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/where-the-riot-began.jpg?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/where-the-riot-began.jpg?resize=300%2C179 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thompson,\na rancher, had many friends, so as word of his wounding, and later death,\nspread throughout the area, tempers flared. Men who had personal grievances\nagainst the criminal elements of the Chinese saw their chance for revenge. The sheriff\nand marshal arrived and set up a guard around the alley to keep the Americans\nout and the Chinese in. With orders to shoot any Chinese who left the alley if\nthey did not obey the command to halt, they left their deputies in charge. One Chinese\nman, <a>Ah Wing, <\/a>tried to get through the mob. He was\ntaken into protection by the police, but the mob seized him while physically\nrestraining the lawmen. They took him to Tomlinson\u2019s Corral and Lumber yard. Someone\nran up with a rope and a boy scurried up the frame of the corral\u2019s wide doors\nto help tie the noose. Ah Wing would be the first victim on what would come to\nbe known as the Black Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Covered_Sidewalk_ca1880s.jpg?resize=800%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"390\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=390\" class=\"wp-image-390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Covered_Sidewalk_ca1880s.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Covered_Sidewalk_ca1880s.jpg?resize=300%2C219 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Covered_Sidewalk_ca1880s.jpg?resize=768%2C562 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Covered_Sidewalk_ca1880s.jpg?resize=780%2C570 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After\nwaiting for the Chinese to try to escape the area, the mob, believing wild\nrumors that the foreigners were \u201ckilling white men by the whole,\u201d rushed one of\nthe main buildings, the Coronel. They climbed on top and begin braking holes in\nthe ceiling. Then they began firing down at the people inside. Someone suggested\nburning the Chinese out. The Chicago Fire, which had occurred two weeks\nearlier, was fresh on the crowd\u2019s mind, so they brought a firehose to contain\nthe fire. When cooler heads prevailed against burning the Chinese out, the mob\ninstead tried to flush them out with the firehose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/download.jpg?resize=840%2C626&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"392\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=392\" class=\"wp-image-392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/download.jpg?w=840 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/download.jpg?resize=300%2C224 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/download.jpg?resize=768%2C572 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/download.jpg?resize=780%2C581 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\n8:45 pm, the mob, tired of waiting and enflamed by rumors of gold in the\nChinese stores, tore into the alley. The police tried to control the situation and\nsave some of the people, but the mob\u2019s strength was too great. They hauled off\nmen, claiming they were taking them to the jail house. Instead they took them\nto Tomlinson\u2019s corral, where they hung them alongside Ah Wing. The mob used the awning of\nJohn Goller\u2019s wagon shop as gallows, despite Mr. Goller\u2019s pleas to the\ncontrary. The mob hung others from a wagon tongue on Commercial Street. A\nChinese doctor, Chee Long &#8220;Gene&#8221; Tong, pleaded in English that he was\ninnocent. He was shot in the mouth and then hung. Some Chinese did fight back.\nA woman picked up a rifle that was dropped by one of the Americans and began\nfiring, but the rioters cut holes in the roofs of the building and flushed her\nand the rest of the Chinese out. The mob was a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, Irish,\nGerman and Hispanic. Even women cheered the lynch mob on. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b428dd05c978e76925a5ff83f030cef9.jpg?resize=500%2C731&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"391\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=391\" class=\"wp-image-391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b428dd05c978e76925a5ff83f030cef9.jpg?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b428dd05c978e76925a5ff83f030cef9.jpg?resize=205%2C300 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As\nwith every dark moment in history, some lights of humanity shown. Some\nresidents spoke out against the violence, but where told to shut up at the\nthreat of their lives. Henry Hazard was even shot at, but that did not stop him\nfrom shaming some vigilantes into releasing their captive. Robert Widney organized\na group which took Chinese from the mob at gun point. The policemen put the\nChinese in the city jail for safety. When the mob approached, the police would\nsay \u201cthey\u2019re all women,\u201d and the rioters passed on. Other residents of Los Angeles\nhid Chinese in their homes and stores. The Justice of Peace, William H. Gary,\nknown for treating the Chinese fairly, hid several in his cellar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\nthe time Black Tuesday was over, twenty percent of L. A.\u2019s Chinese population was\ndead. None of those who were killed were members of the feuding companies. Some\nhad only been in the town a few days. Their names were Ah Wing, <a>Dr. Chee Long &#8220;Gene&#8221; Tong<\/a>, Chang Wan Leong\nQuai, Ah Long, Wan Foo, Tong Won, Ah Loo Day Kee, Ah Waa, Ho Hing, Lo Hey, Ah\nWon, Wing Chee, Wong Chin, Johnny Burrow, Ah Cut and Wa Sin Quai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"809\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Los_Angeles_corpses_of_Chinese_victims_Oct_1871.jpg?resize=809%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"393\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=393\" class=\"wp-image-393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Los_Angeles_corpses_of_Chinese_victims_Oct_1871.jpg?w=809 809w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Los_Angeles_corpses_of_Chinese_victims_Oct_1871.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Los_Angeles_corpses_of_Chinese_victims_Oct_1871.jpg?resize=768%2C513 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Los_Angeles_corpses_of_Chinese_victims_Oct_1871.jpg?resize=780%2C521 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\ncity fathers were embarrassed by the behavior of the citizenry. Newspapers\ndeclared to the nation that the City of Angels was a blood soaked Edan. Ten\nmembers of the mob were arrested and prosecuted. Only eight &#8211; Esteban Alvarado,\nCharles Austin, Refugio Botello, L. F. Crenshaw, A. R. Johnson, Jesus Martinez,\nPatrick M. McDonald and Louis Mendel \u2013 were convicted. All the convictions were\noverturned within three years due to legal technicalities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\ncoming years would see a rise in racial animosity toward East Asians known as\nthe Yellow Peril. &nbsp;This unfounded fear climaxed\nin the Page Act of 1875 which barred Chinese women and the Chinese Exclusion\nAct of 1882 which banned all Chinese laborers from migrating to America. Asian-Americans\nwould experience injustice and oppression along the West Coast similar to what\nAfrican-Americans faced in the Jim Crow South. They would finally receive the\nright to vote in 1943 with the passage of the Magnuson Act, which overturned\nthe Exclusion Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-10 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/imageMain_16_802.jpg?resize=422%2C572&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"394\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=394\" class=\"wp-image-394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/imageMain_16_802.jpg?w=422 422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/imageMain_16_802.jpg?resize=221%2C300 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly, the Los Angeles\nmassacre would not be the last instance of violence against Chinese Americans. The\nHells Canyon massacre in May of 1887 left ten to thirty-four Chinese dead. The Rock\nSprings massacre in Wyoming which left about thirty Chinese dead. The San\nFrancisco riot of 1877 which left four dead. The Seattle riot of 1886 which\nresulted in the removal of the city\u2019s entire Chinese population. The Tacoma\nriot of 1885 would also end in the expulsion of the Chinese populace. And the\nyear 1907 saw a series of anti-Asian race riots take place along the Pacific\nCoast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-11 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/450634037_orig.jpg?resize=600%2C514&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"395\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=395\" class=\"wp-image-395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/450634037_orig.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/450634037_orig.jpg?resize=300%2C257 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The location of the Calle\nde los Negros &nbsp;now lies under the asphalt\nand concrete of the city. One of the ironies of the Chinatown Massacre is that\nthe location of the crime is now covered by the Hollywood Freeway in the shadow\nof City Hall. The rest is covered by North Los Angeles Street and Union\nStation. Another irony is that one of the lynching locations is now in the\nshadow of a federal justice building. Beside from a three-square foot plaque in\nthe sidewalk and an annual candlelight vigil, little remains to remind Angelenos\nof one of the most important events in the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been a film, <em>The Jade Pedant<\/em>, which features the massacre. However, the film is low budget, cringy, boring and poorly acted. Worse, the massacre does not transition &nbsp;well into the storyline, giving it a tacked-on feeling. Based on a novel, the fictional love story is nowhere as interesting as the true one. &nbsp;I think there should be a movie that focuses exclusively on the victims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1RT2ZbGciz4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I particularly believe that a movie about The Chinatown Massacre would open up possibilities for other stories from the Asian-American experience to be explored in film. From the story of the original Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker, through western settlement, to the movement for civil rights and the service of Asian-Americans in the US armed forces (See the story of Ching Lee in <em>The Last Stand of Fox Company<\/em>), there is plenty of material to draw from. There were even Chinese on both sides of the American Civil War. Hmm, how about a parody of <em>The Last Samurai<\/em> where a Chinese guy has to teach a bunch of backwoods southern folks to defend themselves against the blue clad soldiers of an industrialized central power? Like Tom Cruz\u2019s movie, it\u2019s kind of based on truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-12 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Corporal_Joseph_Pierce-2-e1415374753886.jpg?resize=391%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"397\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=397\" class=\"wp-image-397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Corporal_Joseph_Pierce-2-e1415374753886.jpg?w=391 391w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Corporal_Joseph_Pierce-2-e1415374753886.jpg?resize=251%2C300 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another reason I think\nthere needs to be a movie about the Chinatown Massacre is because Hollywood doesn\u2019t\nlike to confront the sins of Los Angeles like it does those of the American\nSouth and Heartland (Slavery, Jim Crow, the American Indian Wars). Besides from\nfilms about the Black Dahlia, Charles Manson and the racial tensions of the\n1990s, and of course film history, a lot of Lost Angeles history hasn\u2019t made it\non to the big screen. In particular the gritty and grisly place the City of Angels\nwas during the frontier period and 19th century has not been, with the\nexception of the Zorro movies, featured in any major films recently. I believe\nthe story of Victorian Lost Angeles and the Chinese Massacre of 1871 deserves\nthe same kind of treatment that Martin Scorsese gave New York in <em>Gangs of\nNew York<\/em>. And even though a ending scene with the skyline changing over the\ncourse of time might seem a rip-off, I would see it as fitting since the\nterrible night of October 24, 1871 has vanished from memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-13 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DnE0biYUwAIBi9e.jpg?fit=1024%2C511&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"396\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/?attachment_id=396\" class=\"wp-image-396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DnE0biYUwAIBi9e.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DnE0biYUwAIBi9e.jpg?resize=300%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DnE0biYUwAIBi9e.jpg?resize=768%2C383 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DnE0biYUwAIBi9e.jpg?resize=780%2C389 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that the victims of the night of horrors will never be forgotten and the story of Chinese-Americans would become more widely known and understood, I believe that The Chinatown War by Scott Zesch should be a movie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nL8Beh5g-vM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants looking for the gold of the American Dream become the forgotten victims of the largest mass lynching in American History. 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