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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... newspapers quickly publicized the news of the dramatic discovery of the murdered “girl missionary.” The coverage of the Sigel murder investigation remained in the front pages of New York City newspapers for at least a week after its ...
... newspaper readers became thoroughly engrossed in the details of the murder and its investigation in the summer of 1909. Indeed, for the general public, the identity of the murderer was no mystery. It was Leon Ling, a Chinese Sunday ...
... newspapers, and magazines. While white middle- and upperclass neighborhoods were consistently bathed with sunlight and open air, the neighborhoods of non-whites, the poor, and working-class immigrants were enshrouded in darkness ...
... Newspapers claimed that it was during the course of their missionary activities that mother and daughter had met Leon Ling four years earlier, when he had operated a Chinese restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue near 191st Street. At that time ...
... newspapers' attention to the illicit romantic relationship between Sigel and Leon Ling further fueled public speculation on the activities of Chinese missions and their suitability for young, white middle-class women. Following the ...
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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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