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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... Missionary Game” CHAPTER FIVE Chinese American Interracial Couples and Families in New York City CHAPTER SIX “The Most Remarkable Get-away in Police History” CHAPTER SEVEN “Disgrace on the Whole Body of Our People” Epilogue Notes ...
... missionary working with the city's predominantly 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 ...
... missionary and murdered her in a fit of jealousy when he learned of her growing affections for another Chinese man. As far as the public was concerned, these were the facts of the case and they were not in dispute. The modern day ...
... missionary in the trunk became a potent reminder of the consequences of such unmonitored racial and gender trespassing. DECIPHERING THE WOMAN IN THE TRUNK Elsie Sigel, the young woman found inside Leon Ling's trunk, was hardly a typical ...
... missionary/reformer than one who needed to be reformed herself. The newspapers' attention to the illicit romantic ... missionaries' and their 8 * Introduction.
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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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