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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... teacher, but this transgression was of lesser concern than her crossing of racial, gender, and class boundaries. First, she undermined racial borders by treating Leon Ling as though he were a “white man,” as one reporter claimed ...
... teaching Chinese men. The debate over the effectiveness of Christian missionary activities among the Chinese was not brought on by this murder. Discussions over whether or not Chinese could be Christianized had been present since the ...
... teacher, and Yee Fulk, one of her students, at the latter's business establishment, a Chinese restaurant. The two ... teacher in the city. If a teacher was caught visiting a “Chinese dive” he planned to raid the place and put the teacher ...
... teachers' parents disliked the superintendent's tactics and viewed their daughters as the innocent victims of brutish police harassment. Nonetheless, fearing further trouble from the police, Rev. Dr. Warren G. Partridge, a pastor of a ...
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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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