The Chinatown Trunk Mystery, (Paperback)

from ElizabethChapman

A well-researched and well-written account of the 1909 murder of Elsie Sigel in New York. Her death was a gruesome mystery, although suspicion quickly turned to her Chinese Sunday school student and supposed lover, Leon Ling. Mary Ting Yi, an assistant professor of American Studies and History at...

from ElizabethChapman

A well-researched and well-written account of the 1909 murder of Elsie Sigel in New York. Her death was a gruesome mystery, although suspicion quickly turned to her Chinese Sunday school student and supposed lover, Leon Ling. Mary Ting Yi, an assistant professor of American Studies and History at...

from MCDyson

More of a textbook/sociology type book than true crime, but was interesting anyway. I learned how terrible chinese/asian men were look upon and treated in the 19th century. Also was suprised to learn that many Irish women preferred Chinese men to their own Irishmen. So all in all, a good read.

from DarthDeverell

In The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, Mary Ting Yi Lui examines the murder of Elsie Sigel as a window into the gender, class, and race divisions in New York City's Chinatown. Lui argues, "The cultural and geogra...

from DarthDeverell

In The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, Mary Ting Yi Lui examines the murder of Elsie Sigel as a window into the gender, class, and race divisions in New York City's Chinatown. Lui argues, "The cultural and geogra...