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moreIn The Chinese Massacre (Annotated),playwright Tom Jacobson takes a Howard Zinn-like "people's history" look at Los Angeles, revealing a little-known, yet significant, episode. In 1871, long before the 20th century's Zoot Suit, Watts and L.A. riots, there was a pogrom against L. A.'s then-200 inhabitants of Chinese ancestry. There are few more important, serious subjects than ethnic cleansing and genocide. Jacobson and Circle X Theatre Co. are to be commended for rescuing this butchery and burning 140 years ago from our collective amnesia. The killing of 18 Chinese men - almost 10 percent of Chinatown's population - surpassed the number of victims of the Manson tribe, yet is as forgotten as Squeaky and Charlie remain remembered.