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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... Chinese in the Americas, formerly known as the New York Chinatown History Project, situated in the heart of New York ... Exclusion Act with Simon Cole. My thanks go to him for his knowledge and friendship. I am grateful to Edward Rhoads for ...
... Chinese immigrants: homes, houses of worship, places of business, and the Chinatown neighborhood itself. Likewise ... Exclusion Act, such federal legislation not only aimed to deny Chinese laborers entry into the United States, but also ...
... Chinese men posing as converts to meet young white women, for these writers ... exclusion debate throughout the latter half of the nineteenth and early ... Chinese. In the aftermath of the murder, white female missionaries' responses to ...
... Chinese men and reinscribed social and spatial borders in areas of the city where these groups overlapped. Sigel by ... Exclusion Act in creating heavily skewed Chinese male-tofemale ratios in this country.” As a result, we have come to ...
... Chinese Sunday school, issued the order that women would no longer be allowed to teach Chinese students. Chinese ... exclusion. By bringing our attention back to this forgotten episode, we have a rare opportunity to witness how the ...
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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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