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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... example the importance of reexamining the turnof-the-century experiences of Chinese immigrants on the East Coast. My discussion of the problems of racial identification at the turn-of-thecentury in chapter 7 was greatly improved as a ...
... example, reveals the various strategies employed by Chinese Americans. In spite of their political disempowerment as aliens ineligible for citizenship, Chinatown merchants and laborers consistently voiced their demand to safeguard their ...
... example of Chinatown vice and immorality. The association of Chinatown with the Sigel murder was hardly an accident; it was, instead, clearly shaped by prevalent middle-class concerns over the seemingly unfixed place of women and ...
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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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