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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... 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 ...
... married to or cohabitating with a Chinese man. The usual reasons given for these relationships—drug addiction, economic necessity, white slavery, etc.—did not hold in this case. The public's vigorous response to the murder illustrates ...
... 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 ...
... married, suggesting that a complete social redemption was impossible even though she had left Chinatown. By recounting the stories of Elsie and this unnamed woman, Meloney provided a cautionary tale of the hidden dangers of Chinatown 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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