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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... marriage registries. I am grateful to the National Endowment of the Humanities, Williams College, and Yale University for their financial support of some of the research and travel expenses incurred. Ten thousand thanks go to Thomas ...
... married women. By doing so she acted not as one possessing the feminine virtue ascribed to unmarried, respectable middle-class women of her station and calling, but behaved in the brash manner of urban working-class women who were ...
... marriage and sexual relations between Chinese and whites in New York City. The press provided sketches of several Chinese-white couples questioned by the police as potential witnesses. The presence of interracial couples is not ...
... marriage licenses.” Such measures restricted the social and physical mobility of white teenage girls, women, and ... married to or cohabitating with a Chinese man. The usual reasons given for these relationships—drug addiction, economic ...
... married to Chinese men to provide readers with a more intimate exploration into what attracted these women to this neighborhood. In recounting this part of the trip, Meloney devoted considerable attention to his encounter with a young ...
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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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