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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... male-tofemale ratios in this country.” As a result, we have come to see nineteenth and early-twentieth-century urban communities as comprising mainly single Chinese male laborers living in transnational households apart from their wives ...
... male and female, populations. Their motives and actions allow us to understand the historical making of New York City's Chinatown as a recognizably racialized and gendered territory at the turn-of-the-century. Revisiting the Elsie Sigel ...
... male hero, such as this journalist, could women such as Elsie hope to escape the trap posed by Chinatown and pass through those invisible “walls” to regain respectability by becoming part of their “own kind” again. Yet, the woman in ...
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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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