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 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 men and white women of all socioeconomic classes while reaffirming mobility as a white male privilege. Despite these efforts, the reinscription of such boundaries into New York City's rapidly changing landscape proved difficult ...
... Chinese and Japanese men frequently visited the Sigel family at their home. The New York Herald reported that some neighbors even went so far as to claim that “Chinese and Japanese boarders were accommodated at the residence. It was ...
... Chinese men posing as converts to meet young white women, for these writers, was matched by the sentimentality and naïveté of the white female missionaries. Not surprisingly many of the city's writers and cartoonists portrayed Chinese ...
... Chinese men forced into the open the larger topic of interracial marriage and sexual relations between Chinese and whites in New York City. The press provided sketches of several Chinese-white couples questioned by the police as ...
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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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