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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... Male Mobility in New York City CHAPTER THREE Policing Urban Girls' and Women's Mobility and Desires CHAPTER FOUR Playing the “Missionary Game” CHAPTER FIVE Chinese American Interracial Couples and Families in New York City CHAPTER SIX ...
... male Chinese immigrant population, seemed to provide the necessary explanation. Overnight, the city's and nation's newspapers quickly publicized the news of the dramatic discovery of the murdered “girl missionary.” The coverage of the ...
... male privilege. Despite these efforts, the reinscription of such boundaries into New York City's rapidly changing landscape proved difficult. Surprising revelations emerging from the murder investigation and the actions of the people ...
... male space that included both Chinese and white men. While these men were able to move through the area unhindered, white women could not enter unescorted without fear of grave risk to their person at the hands of Chinatown's ...
... male participation in the city's Protestant missions. While some writers acknowledged that not all Chinese students were insincere or lascivious, most remained convinced that the risk of tragedy was too great to allow white women to ...
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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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