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

By
Mary Ting Yi Lui
Mary Ting Yi Lui
2004 • 314 pages

Based on the unsolved 1909 murder of Elsie Sigel, the 'girl missionary' who was believed to have been murdered by Leon Ling, her jealous Chinese lover, this text explores the attempts by the public and police to monitor and regulate Chinese/white social and sexual relations in turn-of-the-century New York.

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