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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... stories continued intermittently for several months. In other parts of the country, area newspapers provided detailed coverage of the New York investigation and reported on the extent to which local communities were also deeply affected ...
... story further. These reasons alone do not fully explain the shaping of the murder narrative around specific sets of images and stories that had little bearing on the murder itself. Indeed, what immediately strikes the historian when ...
... stories in London, Victorian narratives of sexual danger were attempts to redraw that city's social and spatial boundaries. The rapid social and economic changes that emerged in nineteenth-century London left open possibilities of ...
... stories concerning the Sigel murder case could be readily found.” Many of the nation's major newspapers carried the NYPD's official descriptions and photographs of the two suspects, allowing readers to assist in their identification and ...
... story on the murder on the front page, prompting an investigation into the Chinese missionary activities within its own city. Reporters interviewed several of Chicago's Chinese missionaries to reassure readers that their city's missions ...
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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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