The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York CityPrinceton University Press, 21 iul. 2020 - 320 pagini In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling. |
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... American Male Mobility in New York City CHAPTER THREE Policing Urban Girls' and Women's Mobility and Desires CHAPTER FOUR Playing the “Missionary Game” CHAPTER FIVE Chinese American Interracial Couples and Families in New York City ...
... American women's writing group with a remarkable group of scholars from a range of academic disciplines: Evelyn Ch'ien, Shirley Lim, Sanda Lwin, Suzette Min, Mae Ngai, Shuang Shen, Sandhya Shukla, Lok Siu, Cynthia Tolentino, and Lisa ...
... American Protestant missions in China in the early nineteenth century, and it continued in this country as part of the larger Chinese exclusion debate throughout the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The ...
... American cultural and legal practices, they often felt secure in their interactions with white Americans and played important intermediary roles between Chinese residents and white American social and legal institutions. The tremendous ...
... Americans quickly mounted numerous protests against the ongoing harassment resulting from the increased police and press ... American working-class urban neighborhoods as “Chinatowns” with fixed ethnic and racial borders predicated on ...
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CHAPTER | 52 |
CHAPTER THREE | 81 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 111 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 143 |
CHAPTER | 175 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 198 |
Epilogue | 222 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 293 |
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