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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... 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-class” Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, 1909 “Doyers ...
... wife who died under odd circumstances that 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 ...
... wife, impressed upon the public both the personal and national dimensions of this tragedy. The press further alleged that the victim at a young age had been introduced by her mother to Protestant missionary work among the city's Chinese ...
... wives and families who remained in China.” The few Chinese women in these communities are identified mostly as either prostitutes and servants or members of established merchant families.” Based on a conceptualization of Chinatowns as ...
... his plainclothes detectives to look out for the two women and keep them out of the neighborhood in case they returned to Chinatown the next evening. Figure 1.1. A Chinese man's white wife trapped in Chinatown, 18 - Chapter One.
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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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