{"id":45159,"date":"2019-03-26T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45159"},"modified":"2021-03-24T19:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:36:43","slug":"the-house-of-the-pain-of-others-chronicle-of-a-small-genocide-by-julian-herbert-translated-by-christina-macsweeney-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-house-of-the-pain-of-others-chronicle-of-a-small-genocide-by-julian-herbert-translated-by-christina-macsweeney-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of the Pain of Others: Chronicle of a Small Genocide by Juli\u00e1n Herbert, translated by Christina MacSweeney [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44918\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/House-of-the-Pain-of-Others-Julian-Herbert-BookDragon-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/House-of-the-Pain-of-Others-Julian-Herbert-BookDragon-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/House-of-the-Pain-of-Others-Julian-Herbert-BookDragon.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>The \u201clargest mass slaughter of Asians on the American continent\u201d claimed the lives of over 300 Chinese immigrants in May 1911 in Torre\u00f3n, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Despite its magnitude, the massacre remains a \u201cburied episode,\u201d obscured by substantial erroneous coverage, that writer, musician, and teacher Juli\u00e1n Herbert describes as \u201cthe national fiction of a small genocide.\u201d\u00a0Amidst too many unreliable \u201cincarnations,\u201d what was missing was \u201ca cron\u00edca, with its blend of literature and journalism &#8230; an all-encompassing report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With exhaustive zeal, Herbert interviews descendants, archivists, officials, and conducts impromptu \u201cwhat-do-you-know?\u201d conversations with Torre\u00f3n cab drivers. He compiles several-century histories of China, the U.S., and Mexico. He investigates Sinophobia across the North American continent. He studies immigration patterns and cultural and economic clashes.<\/p>\n<p>He confronts \u201cthe national novel about the small genocide &#8230; denial, calumny, obfuscation, contempt, half-truths,\u201d and vigilantly reveals how 300 shoeless Chinese bodies were dumped in a mass grave and the betrayals that continued afterward. Award-winning translator Christina MacSweeney enables anglophone readers access to Herbert\u2019s electrifying testimony, first published in Mexico in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-House-of-the-Pain-of-Others-Chronicle-of-a-Small-Genocide-Julin-Herbert\/pid=9713494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Nonfiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201clargest mass slaughter of Asians on the American continent\u201d claimed the lives of over 300 Chinese immigrants in May 1911 in Torre\u00f3n, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. 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