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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... suggest and locate materials they felt would be pertinent; the book would certainly have been a lesser product without their contribution. I also wish to thank the Church of the Transfiguration for allowing me access to their baptism ...
... suggested the possibility of a double poisoning.” Within weeks following the murder, a World headline announced in typical sensationalistic fanfare that the Elsie Sigel case was only the latest among “112 Unsolved Murders in Manhattan ...
... suggested that Chinatown's exoticness brought about a clear physical and social separation from its European immigrant neighbors. Representations of Chinatown were not only marked by a peculiar racial otherness, they were also gendered ...
... But a reexamination of the history of interracial couples and families through other archival sources—such as federal census schedules, court records, and immigration files—suggest the importance “Find Miss Sigel Dead in Trunk” - 11.
... suggest the importance of such relationships for Chinese living in Northeast cities such as New York. Such an inquiry will also help to explain the context in which Sigel established her relationships with Leon Ling and Chu Gain ...
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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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