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The ‘Queen of the Chinese’ and a forgotten history on the US-Mexico border

· By Lucy Quaggin
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At Texas’ dusty Concordia Cemetery, grass grows over graves in a 140-year-old Chinese burial ground. Some headstones have been stolen or vandalised; others have been marked by flat concrete slabs etched with names in Chinese and English. The slabs were harder to steal than traditional headstones. Still other graves …

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