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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... white women of all socioeconomic classes who came into regular contact with these men. Throughout the country, Americans responded to the Sigel murder by investigating and monitoring in their hometowns the same spaces chiefly identified ...
... white, and male and female, populations. Their motives and actions allow us to understand the historical making of ... women who were similarly exploring their own potential for social and physical mobility in a city readily differentiated by ...
... white women were attracted to Chinatown." Employing the popular narrative convention of rural innocence corrupted by urban vice, Meloney wrote that during the course of the evening “two young women—fresh-faced country lasses”—came ...
... white wife trapped in Chinatown, as described in William Brown Meloney's article on Chinatown shortly following the ... women married to Chinese men to provide readers with a more intimate exploration into what attracted these women to ...
... white woman to get over that wall and back to our own kind,” and that was ... women such as Elsie hope to escape the trap posed by Chinatown and pass ... white middle-class female audience: women who dared to engage in such sexual 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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