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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... young white missionary and murdered her in a fit of jealousy when he learned of her growing affections for another Chinese man. As far as the public was concerned, these were the facts of the case and they were not in dispute. The ...
... young missionary in the trunk became a potent reminder of the consequences of such unmonitored racial and gender trespassing. DECIPHERING THE WOMAN IN THE TRUNK Elsie Sigel, the young woman found inside Leon Ling's trunk, was hardly a ...
... young men of those nationalities.” Neighbors frowned upon the Sigels' relationships with these men and found their visits to be scandalous. In an interview with the New York Tribune, Elsie Sigel's cousin and confidante Mabel Sigel ...
... young white women, for these writers, was matched by the sentimentality and naïveté of the white female missionaries. Not surprisingly many of the city's writers and cartoonists portrayed Chinese men as hypersexualized creatures posing ...
... City counterparts.” Another article that appeared one week into the murder investigation reaffirmed these claims: “In Chicago, at least, the folly of allowing young and inexperienced “Find Miss Sigel Dead in Trunk” - 13.
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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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