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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... urban social problems that plagued a city undergoing rapid industrialization and unprecedented labor immigration: poverty, intemperance, opium addiction, and white slavery. By correlation, those white women who chose to marry Chinese ...
... urban moral order. These narratives of interracial sexual liaisons circulating in popular culture worked to construct categories of sexual and moral deviance and helped in the absence of anti-miscegenation laws to support other ...
... urban social types, such as the “dandy” or the “sport.” Further examination of the press's discussion of Ling and his character reveals not so much a fear that Chinese immigrants could not assimilate into American urban life, but that ...
... urban 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 ...
... urban moral and spatial order by investigating and remapping the proper social and physical spaces and boundaries for both the city's Chinese and white, and male and female, populations. Their motives and actions allow us to understand ...
Cuprins
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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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