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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... Urban Girls' and Women's Mobility and Desires CHAPTER FOUR Playing the “Missionary Game” CHAPTER FIVE Chinese American Interracial Couples and Families in New York City CHAPTER SIX “The Most Remarkable Get-away in Police History ...
... urban neighborhoods comprising ethnically diverse populations into both cultural and spatial constructs that reinforced and reproduced Euro-American notions of racial and cultural superiority against an immoral and viceridden Chinese ...
... 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 economic changes that emerged ...
... urban working-class women who were targeted by that period's social reformers. In other words, Sigel acted less like a missionary/reformer than one who needed to be reformed herself. The newspapers' attention to the illicit romantic ...
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CHAPTER | 17 |
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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