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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... Gender Boundaries in Lower Manhattan CHAPTER TWO Beyond Chinatown: Policing Chinese American Male Mobility in New York City CHAPTER THREE Policing Urban Girls' and Women's Mobility and Desires CHAPTER FOUR Playing the “Missionary Game ...
... gender, and sexuality. The stories—official and unofficial—emerging out of the murder investigation ruptured New Yorkers' perceptions of not only Chinese immigrants in their midst but also the place of white working-class and middle ...
... 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 texts that purport to describe accurately the ...
... gender relations in the making of New York City Chinatown's imaginary and physical landscape. Popular Chinatown narratives that portray white womanhood under assault, such as those appearing after the Elsie Sigel murder, echoed this ...
... gender trespassing. DECIPHERING THE WOMAN IN THE TRUNK Elsie Sigel, the young woman found inside Leon Ling's trunk, was hardly a typical New Yorker but instead the granddaughter of a wellknown Civil War general in the Union army, Franz ...
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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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