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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... Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Sabon Printed on acid-free paper. press.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 To the people of New York City's Chinatown.
... city's predominantly male Chinese immigrant population, seemed to provide the necessary explanation. Overnight, the city's and nation's newspapers quickly publicized the news of the dramatic discovery of the murdered “girl missionary ...
... city undergoing rapid industrial and commercial expansion, and unprecedented population growth. Occurring when the city's physical terrain and social relations were changing—with the arrival and settlement of new immigrant groups and ...
... CITY CHINATOWN Revisiting nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century published texts that purport to describe accurately the everyday lives of the city's Chinese immigrant population presents great difficulties for the modern day historian ...
... 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—particularly middle-class ...
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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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The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous ... Mary Ting Li Lui,Mary Ting Yi Lui Previzualizare limitată - 2005 |