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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... reformers, journalists, and residents in regaining the social and spatial order that had been disrupted. In the aftermath of the murder, this translated directly into the surveillance and investigation of the spaces typically 4 ...
... person at the hands of Chinatown's predominantly male laborer population. To the general public, female social and religious reformers could neither reform those they targeted nor properly guard against 6 • Introduction.
... reformers. In other words, Sigel acted less like a missionary/reformer than one who needed to be reformed herself. The newspapers' attention to the illicit romantic relationship between Sigel and Leon Ling further fueled public ...
... reformers were targeting. As with New York, the residents in these areas grew alarmed by the permeability of supposedly established boundaries separating Chinese men from the general population. The Chicago Daily Tribune ran its story ...
... reformers in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Progressive era sought to cure the ills of the city by focusing on what they identified as sources of social decay and moral corruption. Places like Chinatown, thought to be ...
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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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