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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... allowed to stay as houseguests.” By several newspaper accounts, Leon Ling was one of these regular visitors on familiar terms with the Sigel family. He was said to accompany both mother and daughter to church services and invited to ...
... allowed to stay only because they possessed marriage licenses.” Such measures restricted the social and physical mobility of white teenage girls, women, and Chinese men and reinscribed social and spatial borders in areas of the city ...
... allowed to teach Chinese students. Chinese Americans quickly mounted numerous protests against the ongoing harassment resulting from the increased police and press presence in their communities across the United States. By looking ...
... allowed the crossing of racial and class boundaries, and ultimately established new social and spatial borders among its diverse populations to contain those forms of mobility that threatened to disrupt the urban moral order. The grisly ...
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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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