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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... Opium Dens in Pell and Mott Streets – How the Opium Habit Is Developed,” 1883 Opium dens pictured in a Chinatown guidebook, 1908 “High-class” Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, 1909 “Doyers St., 1909” Chuck Connors, “Mayor of Chinatown ...
... opium joints mixed with accounts of social events involving the more “respectable” members of the community such as Lunar New Year celebrations, picnics and suppers sponsored by the city's Protestant missions, and announcements of ...
... opium smoking, which threatened to undermine white womanhood, seriously challenged Chinese male laborers' efforts toward permanent settlement and physical and social mobility. These accounts also reveal the importance of contemporary ...
... opium dens and illegal gambling halls—neatly situated this neighborhood within the territories of “darkness” that encompassed other notorious poor and working-class slums of the Sixth Ward. At the same timé, writers suggested that ...
... opium addiction, and white slavery. By correlation, those white women who chose to marry Chinese men were described as poor immigrant or working-class women whose economic deprivation led them to engage in socially deviant behavior that ...
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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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