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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... activities and the city's Chinese immigrant population, presenting portraits of individuals and Chinatown daily life. By 1909 newspaper articles and stories about the activities of the “heathen Chinee” were not unknown in New York or ...
... activities. The press frequently played up this angle of the tragedy, emphasizing that despite her family's concerns, Elsie continued to devote herself to the selfless task of Christianizing and educating the city's heathen Chinese ...
... activities of Chinese 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 ...
... activities among the Chinese was not brought on by this murder. Discussions over whether or not Chinese could be Christianized had been present since the establishment of American Protestant missions in China in the early nineteenth ...
... activities within its own city. Reporters interviewed several of Chicago's Chinese missionaries to reassure readers that their city's missions differed from their New York City counterparts.” Another article that appeared one week into ...
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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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