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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... became thoroughly engrossed in the details of the murder and its investigation in the summer of 1909. Indeed, for the general public, the identity of the murderer was no mystery. It was Leon Ling, a Chinese Sunday school pupil who had ...
... became instrumental for New York police, social reformers, journalists, and residents in regaining the social and spatial order that had been disrupted. In the aftermath of the murder, this translated directly into the surveillance and ...
... became a potent reminder of the consequences of such unmonitored racial and gender trespassing. DECIPHERING THE WOMAN IN THE TRUNK Elsie Sigel, the young woman found inside Leon Ling's trunk, was hardly a typical New Yorker but instead ...
... became enmeshed in the national drama created by the Sigel murder investigation and newspaper coverage. In any U.S. city with a noticeable Chinese population, the murder's impact was deeply felt by its Chinese residents as well as white ...
... became identified as the “Chinatown trunk mystery,” which also became the title of a 1910 play about the murder.” The public quickly concluded that the case was another example of Chinatown vice and immorality. The association of ...
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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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