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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... Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui P R IN C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y. P R E S S P R I N C E T O N A N D O X F O R D Copyright © 2005 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton.
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... College, and Yale University for their financial support of some of the research and travel expenses incurred. Ten thousand thanks go to Thomas LeBien, whose editorial expertise and unflagging commitment to the project have been ...
... newspapers quickly publicized the news of the dramatic discovery of the murdered “girl missionary.” The coverage of the ... press attention focused on this case, Elsie Sigel's murder had taken the city and country by surprise. Readers ...
... journalism genre of this period sensationalized the story further. These reasons alone do not fully explain the shaping of the murder narrative around specific sets of images and stories that had little bearing on the murder itself ...
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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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