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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... cultural peculiarities. Reports of tong wars, prostitution, gambling dens, and opium joints mixed with accounts of social events involving the more “respectable” members of the community such as Lunar New Year celebrations, picnics and ...
... cultural and spatial constructs that reinforced and reproduced Euro-American notions of racial and cultural superiority against an immoral and viceridden Chinese immigrant community." Although the majority of the city's Chinese ...
... cultural and legal practices, they often felt secure in their interactions with white Americans and played important intermediary roles between Chinese residents and white American social and legal institutions. The tremendous amount of ...
... cultural, and economic processes of segregation connected to the broader history of Chinese exclusion. By bringing our attention back to this forgotten episode, we have a rare opportunity to witness how the contemporaries of Elsie Sigel ...
... cultural interactions, they also scrutinized and regulated those encounters that allowed the crossing of racial and class boundaries, and ultimately established new social and spatial borders among its diverse populations to contain ...
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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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