The Chinatown Trunk Mystery : : Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City /

The Chinatown Trunk Mystery : : Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City / / Mary Ting Yi Lui.

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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Lui, Mary Ting Yi,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2004
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 23 halftones. 4 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION "Find Miss Sigel Dead in Trunk55
  • CHAPTER ONE "Terra Incognita": Mapping Chinatown's Racial and Gender Boundaries in Lower Manhattan
  • CHAPTER TWO Beyond Chinatown: Policing Chinese American Male Mobility in New York City
  • CHAPTER THREE Policing Urban Girls5 and Women's Mobility and Desires
  • CHAPTER FOUR Playing the "Missionary Game"
  • CHAPTER FIVE Chinese American Interracial Couples and Families in New York City
  • CHAPTER SIX "The Most Remarkable Get-away in Police History"
  • CHAPTER SEVEN "Disgrace on the Whole Body of Our People"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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