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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... establish a motive to tie the chief suspect to the murder. More importantly, they sought to explain how her body came to be found in a room rented by a Chinese man. The rumor that she had been a Protestant missionary working with the ...
... establishing a motive. These were not the questions that gripped early-twentieth-century New Yorkers or the country at large when a nation of newspaper readers became thoroughly engrossed in the details of the murder and its ...
... established merchant families.” Based on a conceptualization of Chinatowns as insular “bachelor societies,” these studies present a historical narrative that implies ethnic and racial homogeneity and solidarity as the basis of community ...
... established her relationships with Leon Ling and Chu Gain. TRACKING THE ELUSIVE LEON LING The disappearance of the two major suspects—Leon Ling and his friend and neighbor Chong Sing—prior to the discovery of Elsie Sigel's body, led to ...
... established boundaries separating Chinese men from the general population. The Chicago Daily Tribune ran its story on the murder on the front page, prompting an investigation into the Chinese missionary activities within its own city ...
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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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