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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... most murder mystery novels, readers eagerly turn the pages to follow the intrepid investigator's attempts to outwit and apprehend the murderer. Dangled clues and red herrings tease and heighten readers' 2 * Introduction INTRODUCTION.
... attempts to bring about his capture; for both New York's police and all subsequent historians, Leon Ling disappeared into thin air. Without him, there would be no courtroom drama to put to rest the many circulating rumors and thus bring ...
... attempts to maintain social order through the regulation of racialized, gendered, and sexualized borders were failing and that the consequences would be devastating. Apprehending the vanished suspects and resolving the nagging questions ...
... attempts to settle and work in neighborhoods throughout the city. The fear that Chinese homes and places of work served as conduits for Chinatown vices such as opium smoking, which threatened to undermine white womanhood, seriously ...
... attempts to redraw that city's social and spatial boundaries. The rapid social and economic changes that emerged in nineteenth-century London left open possibilities of social and spatial transgressions by different groups of people ...
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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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