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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... popular magazines reveals that period's sensationalistic reporting of Chinatown life as defined by sordid underground vice activities or exotic cultural peculiarities. Reports of tong wars, prostitution, gambling dens, and opium joints ...
... popular views on race, class, gender, and sexuality. The stories—official and unofficial—emerging out of the murder investigation ruptured New Yorkers' perceptions of not only Chinese immigrants in their midst but also the place of ...
... popular depictions of these spaces and of the murder itself—through imparting moral and social lessons for readers—also worked to reassert social and spatial boundaries by restraining the physical and social movement of Chinese men and ...
... Popular Chinatown narratives that portray white womanhood under assault, such as those appearing after the Elsie Sigel murder, echoed this period's concerns with the physical and social mobility of different urban populations. As has ...
... popular culture worked to construct categories of sexual and moral deviance and helped in the absence of anti-miscegenation laws to support other institutional forms of policing these relationships. The New York Times reported 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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