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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... neighborhood of Chicago. Evidently, Dr. Kline's neighbor, Timothy Barett of 6447 Drexel Avenue, took advantage of the Sigel murder to rally his neighbors and Chicago's police and public officials to shut down the school. On June 27 a ...
... neighborhoods as “Chinatowns” with fixed ethnic and racial borders predicated on residents' desires to maintain ethnic solidarity and homogeneity. Seldom do today's writers make the effort to examine the spatial boundaries of America's ...
... neighborhoods such as Chinatown. The linking of the murder to this part of Manhattan worked to contain discursively and ... neighborhood published two months after the murder, alerted readers to the dangers of Chinatown and its Chinese ...
... plainclothes detectives to look out for the two women and keep them out of the neighborhood in case they returned to Chinatown the next evening. Figure 1.1. A Chinese man's white wife trapped in Chinatown, 18 - Chapter One.
... neighborhood. In recounting this part of the trip, Meloney devoted considerable attention to his encounter with a young woman named “Elsie,” who had married Chu Wing, a prosperous Chinese laundry owner, in St. Louis seven years earlier ...
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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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