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. |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 90
... social history respectively. I am also grateful to fellow historians and friends K. Scott Wong, John Kuo Wei Tchen, and Dorothy Fujita Rony who directed me to key archival sources and taught by example the importance of reexamining the ...
... social 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 ...
... social lessons for readers—also worked to reassert social and spatial boundaries by restraining the physical and social movement of Chinese men and white women of all socioeconomic classes while reaffirming mobility as a white male ...
... social mobility of different urban populations. As has been shown with the Jack the Ripper stories in London, Victorian narratives of sexual danger were attempts to redraw that city's social and spatial boundaries. The rapid social and ...
... social equal. Second, she expressed the types of sentiments and endearments reserved for properly engaged or married women. By doing so she acted not as one possessing the feminine virtue ascribed to unmarried, respectable middle-class ...
Cuprins
17 | |
CHAPTER | 52 |
CHAPTER THREE | 81 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 111 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 143 |
CHAPTER | 175 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 198 |
Epilogue | 222 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 293 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous ... Mary Ting Yi Lui Previzualizare limitată - 2007 |
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous ... Mary Ting Li Lui,Mary Ting Yi Lui Previzualizare limitată - 2005 |