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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... Church of the Transfiguration for allowing me access to their baptism and marriage registries. I am grateful to the National Endowment of the Humanities, Williams College, and Yale University for their financial support of some of the ...
... Church on 127th Street and Fifth Avenue for many years.” But Elsie's family members including her father, Paul Sigel, disapproved of his wife and daughter's affiliation with the Chinese and urged them to stop their missionary activities ...
... church services and invited to call on them at their home.” As the murder investigation progressed, the press reported that the relationship between Leon Ling and Elsie Sigel went beyond cordial. Aside from visiting the Sigel home, he ...
... church with a Chinese Sunday school, issued the order that women would no longer be allowed to teach Chinese students. Chinese Americans quickly mounted numerous protests against the ongoing harassment resulting from the increased ...
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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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