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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... further. I did not know at the time that this after-hours sleuthing would one day lead me to write this book. Many thanks go to my former colleagues at the museum, who not only encouraged me to research the murder but also to pursue ...
... further. These reasons alone do not fully explain the shaping of the murder narrative around specific sets of images and stories that had little bearing on the murder itself. Indeed, what immediately strikes the historian when looking ...
... further alleged that the victim at a young age had been introduced by her mother to Protestant missionary work among the city's Chinese inhabitants. Mrs. Sigel had taught at the Chinese Sunday school affiliated with St. Andrew's Church ...
... further that on frequent occasions girls in that neighborhood were seen in company with young men of those nationalities.” Neighbors frowned upon the Sigels' relationships with these men and found their visits to be scandalous. In an ...
... further disasters to be averted was to bar middle-class white women from this work and only hire men to teach the Chinese. In the aftermath of the murder, white female missionaries' responses to these attacks on their moral authority ...
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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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