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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... Mission Where Elsie Sigel Met Her Slayer,” 1909 Hy. Mayer, “Just Supposing,” 1909 Robert Carter, “The Infernal Question,” 1909 “Christianized?” June 23, 1909 23 53 57 58 19 29 31 39 40 42 43 44 45 66 79 105 108 112 114 115 5.1. 5.2. 6.1 ...
... missions, and announcements of weddings and births. While stories about Chinatown's vice activities occasionally made front-page news, lengthy follow-up stories seldom appeared. Judging from the constant level of press attention focused ...
... missions and their suitability for young, white middle-class women. Following the murder numerous editorials on this question flooded newspapers across the country, openly challenging female missionaries' and their 8 * Introduction.
... missions were in actuality a vehicle for miscegenation, however, demanded the regulation of the mission on gendered and spatial terms. Employing turn-of-the-century notions of femininity that saw women as overly sentimental and lacking ...
... missions, “chop suey” restaurants, and hand laundries—that New York police, reporters, and social reformers were targeting. As with New York, the residents in these areas grew alarmed by the permeability of supposedly established ...
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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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