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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... United States, but also to contain socially, politically, and economically those who entered by not extending the same legal protections and rights guaranteed to U.S. citizens. This period's published accounts of “Chinatowns” in the United ...
... United States have not studied fully the subject of interracial marriages, sexual relations, and family life.” Historians frequently point to the effects of exclusionary immigration laws beginning with the 1875 Page Law and the 1882 ...
... United States. This description of Leon Ling—emphasizing his good looks and “Americanized” dress and manners—formed the general public's perception of the prime suspect. Leon Ling, also known as William L. Leon, was unlike the typical ...
... United States. By looking beyond mainstream newspaper coverage and delving into archival sources that give voice to different segments of the diverse Chinese immigrant community, a range of personal and collective protests can be found ...
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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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