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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... Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui. THE CHINATOWN TRUNK MYSTERY Murder, Miscegenation, and Other 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 ...
... Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui. Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION “Find Miss Sigel Dead in Trunk” CHAPTER ONE “Terra Incognita”: Mapping Chinatown's Racial and Gender Boundaries in Lower Manhattan ...
... Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui. 5.1. 5.2. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 7.1. 7.2. W. A. Rogers, “A Wedding in the Chinese Quarter, Mott Street, New York,” 1890 Chinese family at 34 Mott Street, 1908 Published photographs of the missing suspects ...
... Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui. Acknowledgments. I have been fortunate to receive the generous support of family, friends, and colleagues throughout the research and writing of this book. First and foremost, this book would not ...
... Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui. Sigel's motivation for befriending Chinese men such as the murder suspect, and more importantly, the place of Chinese immigrants in New York City and the nation at large. These questions ultimately ...
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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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