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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... throughout Manhattan in 1893 RES Lulu Shu, the white wife of a Chinese man, 1909 “New York City – The Opium Dens in Pell and Mott Streets – How the Opium Habit Is Developed,” 1883 Opium dens pictured in a Chinatown guidebook, 1908 “High ...
... throughout the research and writing of this book. First and foremost, this book would not exist without the invaluable work experience at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, formerly known as the New York Chinatown History Project ...
... throughout the various incarnations of this project from dissertation to book. I have also been fortunate enough to participate in an Asian American women's writing group with a remarkable group of scholars from a range of academic ...
... throughout the nation eagerly followed the developments of both the police and investigative journalists in their efforts to apprehend the Chinese fugitives and resolve the many questions surrounding the murder, the nature of Sigel's ...
... throughout the city. The fear that Chinese homes and places of work served as conduits for Chinatown vices such as opium smoking, which threatened to undermine white womanhood, seriously challenged Chinese male laborers' efforts toward ...
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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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