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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... 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 murdered “girl missionary.” The coverage of the Sigel murder ...
... population growth. Occurring when the city's physical terrain and social relations were changing—with the arrival and settlement of new immigrant groups and with cleavages between various socioeconomic classes—the murder warned that ...
... population presents great difficulties for the modern day historian. Authors from the 1870s to the early 1920s ... populations into both cultural and spatial constructs that reinforced and reproduced Euro-American notions of racial and ...
... populations. As has been shown with the Jack the Ripper stories in London, Victorian narratives of sexual danger were ... population. To the general public, female social and religious reformers could neither reform those they targeted ...
... population." 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 ...
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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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