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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... Chinese men and reinscribed social and spatial borders in areas of the city where these groups overlapped. Sigel by ... Chinese man. The usual reasons given for these relationships—drug addiction, economic necessity, white slavery, etc ...
... Chinese living in Northeast cities such as New York. Such an inquiry will also help to explain the context in which ... men like Leon Ling appeared to be succeeding all too well. The heightened visibility of Leon Ling profoundly impacted the ...
... Chinese men from many different parts of the country, such as Tien Bow Leo, a student, taken into custody in Middletown, New York; Jun Ling, a Chinese laundryman, picked up while riding a street car in New Jersey; and many others ...
... Chinese men is committed rarely if at all. The feminine influence is strong, to be sure, but, as it has been expressed, these women workers have “sanity, good taste, and understanding.” Such assurances, however, did not prevent the ...
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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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