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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... cultural, and political institutions of the Chinese in their city contributed to the death of Elsie Sigel.” The editor of the Cosmopolitan, in his preface to a lengthy article on the Chinatown neighborhood published two months after the ...
... cultural contamination Chinatown posed to unsuspecting white female visitors. Galvin then instructed one of his plainclothes detectives to look out for the two women and keep them out of the neighborhood in case they returned to ...
... cultural interest for middle-class New Yorkers occurred as the city experienced the rapid urbanization and expansion that brought an end to the walking city and saw the rise of new classstratified residential, financial, and ...
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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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