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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... immigration—Government policy. 2. Immigrants— New York (State)—New York—Public opinion. 3. Chinese—New York (State)—New York—Public opinion. 4. Interracial dating—New York (State)—New York—Public opinion. 5. Murder—New York (State)—New ...
... Chinese immigrants on the East Coast. My discussion of the problems of racial identification at the turn-of-thecentury in chapter 7 was greatly improved as a result of my participation in a collaborative research project on the history ...
... Chinese men such as the murder suspect, and more importantly, the place of Chinese immigrants in New York City and the nation at large. These questions ultimately mattered more to readers than proving the murderer's identity and motive ...
... Chinese immigrants: homes, houses of worship, places of business, and the Chinatown neighborhood itself. Likewise, popular depictions of these spaces and of the murder itself—through imparting moral and social lessons for readers—also ...
... Chinese throughout the city. Changing gender roles and sexual mores granted ... immigrants were enshrouded in darkness, disease, and criminality ... Chinese and white men. While these men were able to move through the area unhindered ...
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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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