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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... laborers entry into the United States, but also to contain socially, politically, and economically those who entered by not extending the same legal protections and rights guaranteed to U.S. citizens. This period's published accounts of ...
... to their person at the hands of Chinatown's predominantly male laborer population. To the general public, female social and religious reformers could neither reform those they targeted nor properly guard against 6 • Introduction.
... laborers living in transnational households apart from their wives and families who remained in China.” The few Chinese women in these communities are identified mostly as either prostitutes and servants or members of established ...
... laborers consistently voiced their demand to safeguard their persons, communities, livelihoods, and public image at various levels of the U.S. and Chinese governments. Their vigorous and sustained responses reveal the extent to which ...
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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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