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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... continued intermittently for several months. In other parts of the country, area newspapers provided detailed coverage of the New York investigation and reported on the extent to which local communities were also deeply affected by the ...
... continued to challenge the contemporary racial and gender ideologies upon which these boundaries were erected. READING AND MAPPING TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK CITY CHINATOWN Revisiting nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century published ...
... continued to be a prominent public figure in New York social circles. He made an unsuccessful bid as the Republican candidate for secretary of state of New York, but in 1871 he was elected Registrar for New York County. In 1885 ...
... continued in this country as part of the larger Chinese exclusion debate throughout the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The devastating accusation that these missions were in actuality a vehicle for ...
... continued to call into question her virtue and moral character. The press's discussion of the relationship between Sigel and the two Chinese men forced into the open the larger topic of interracial marriage and sexual relations between ...
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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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