{"id":10,"date":"2019-09-16T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:50:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:50:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This multimedia commemorative event includes a thirty minute immersive multimedia learning\/performance presentation featuring oral narrative, a mix of Chinese<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and Western\u00a0instrumentalists playing\u00a0structured improvisation on contemporaneous\u00a0Chinese<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and American music\u00a0in<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>LA, and a video visual artist drawing on historical photos to recover the neglected history of the LA Chinatown massacre.<\/p>\n<p>This will be followed by a 30 minute Scripps community dialogue about forgotten histories of mass violence, also\u00a0\u00a0reflections on how exclusionary violence persists in<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>LA<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>, followed by<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>collective thinking about how begin to process of reconciliation by recognizing and respecting different histories.<\/p>\n<p>The two paired performances are presented by the Chinese American Museum and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument in collaboration with Scripps College.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Historical Background<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1871 LA<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Chinatown Massacre was one of the worst cases of mass race lynching on the West Coast.\u00a0 Seventeen<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Chinese<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>men and boys, including a popular doctor, were shot, hanged and burned by an angry mob of about ten percent of the total<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>LA<span class=\"m_-1563506679008435162apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>population of the time near Olvera Street.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview This multimedia commemorative event includes a thirty minute immersive multimedia learning\/performance presentation featuring oral narrative, a mix of Chinese\u00a0and Western\u00a0instrumentalists playing\u00a0structured improvisation on contemporaneous\u00a0Chinese\u00a0and American music\u00a0in\u00a0LA, and a video visual artist drawing on historical photos to recover the neglected history of the LA Chinatown massacre. This will be followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/chinatowncommemoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}