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Author | : Frances McNamara |
Publisher | : Allium Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Chinatown (Chicago, Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780989053556 |
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"In the summer of 1896, amateur sleuth Emily Cabot becomes involved in a murder investigation when a herbalist is poisoned in Chicago's original Chinatown"--
Author | : Victoria Thompson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2007-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101207310 |
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In Chinatown to deliver a baby, Sarah Brandt meets a group of women she might otherwise never have come across: Irish girls who, after alighting on Ellis Island alone, have married Chinese men in the same predicament. But with bigotry in New York from every side, their mixed-race children are often treated badly, by the Irish, the Chinese—even the police. When the new mother’s half-Chinese, half-Irish, 15-year-old niece goes missing, Sarah knows that alerting the constables would prove futile. So she turns to Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy—and together they begin the search themselves. And after they find her, dead in an alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects—from both sides of Canal Street.
Author | : Mary Ting Yi Lui |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691216282 |
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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. Through the lens of this unsolved murder, Mary Ting Yi Lui offers a fascinating snapshot of social and sexual relations between Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sigel's murder was more than a notorious crime, Lui contends. It was a clear signal that attempts to maintain geographical and social boundaries between the city's Chinese male and white female populations had failed. When police discovered Sigel and Leon Ling's love letters, giving rise to the theory that Leon Ling killed his lover in a fit of jealous rage, this idea became even more embedded in the public consciousness. New Yorkers condemned the work of Chinese missions and eagerly participated in the massive national and international manhunt to locate the vanished Leon Ling. Lui explores how the narratives of racial and sexual danger that arose from the Sigel murder revealed widespread concerns about interracial social and sexual mixing during the era. She also examines how they provoked far-reaching skepticism about regulatory efforts to limit the social and physical mobility of Chinese immigrants and white working-class and middle-class women. Through her thorough re-examination of this notorious murder, Lui reveals in unprecedented detail how contemporary politics of race, gender, and sexuality shaped public responses to the presence of Chinese immigrants during the Chinese exclusion era.
Author | : James C. Mohr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198036760 |
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A little over a century ago, bubonic plague--the same Black Death that decimated medieval Europe--arrived on the shores of Hawaii just as the islands were about to become a U.S. territory. In this absorbing narrative, James Mohr tells the story of that fearful visitation and its fiery climax--a vast conflagration that engulfed Honolulu's Chinatown. Mohr tells this gripping tale largely through the eyes of the people caught up in the disaster, from members of the white elite to Chinese doctors, Japanese businessmen, and Hawaiian reporters. At the heart of the narrative are three American physicians--the Honolulu Board of Health--who became virtual dictators when the government granted them absolute control over the armed forces and the treasury. The doctors soon quarantined Chinatown, where the plague was killing one or two people a day and clearly spreading. They resisted intense pressure from the white community to burn down all of Chinatown at once and instead ordered a careful, controlled burning of buildings where plague victims had died. But a freak wind whipped one of those small fires into a roaring inferno that destroyed everything in its path, consuming roughly thirty-eight acres of densely packed wooden structures in a single afternoon. Some 5000 people lost their homes and all their possessions and were marched in shock to detention camps, where they were confined under armed guard for weeks. Next to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Chinatown fire is the worst civic disaster in Hawaiian history. A dramatic account of people struggling in the face of mounting catastrophe, Plague and Fire is a stimulating and thought-provoking read.
Author | : Henry Chang |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1616953527 |
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When a floater that surfaces in the Harlem River turns out to be Chinese, Yu leaves his downtown precinct to investigate. Yu knocks on the usual doors, and the trail leads to the Gee family, noodle manufacturers who on the surface look like the ideal immigrant success story. When the body of an unidentified Asian man is found in the Harlem River, NYPD Detective Jack Yu is pulled in to investigate. The murder takes Jack from the benevolent associations of Chinatown to the take-out restaurants, strip clubs, and underground gambling establishments of the Bronx, to a wealthy, exclusive New Jersey borough. It's a world of secrets and unclear allegiances, of Chinatown street gangs and major Triad players. With the help of an elderly fortune teller and an old friend, the unpredictable Billy Bow, Jack races to solve his most difficult case yet.
Author | : Isaac Ho |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781475274295 |
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In San Francisco, the brutal murder of a Chinatown businessman sets off a deadly chain reaction that exposes a long dormant blood feud. The spotlight falls on his eldest son Joe Sung, an aspiring folk singer, who must now evade death at the hands of a rival tong. At the same time, his girlfriend Maya gets caught in the crossfire as she digs deep into his family's hidden past.
Author | : Mary Ting Yi Lui |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2007-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691130485 |
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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.
Author | : Paul Malmont |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2007-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 074328786X |
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Set in the colorful world of the 1930s and peopled with writers H.P. Lovecraft, L. Ron Hubbard, Lester Dent, and Walter Gibson, this swashbuckling literary thriller propels the characters into a genuine pulp adventure in which they try to thwart a madman intent on creating a new global empire.
Author | : Victoria E. Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Brandt, Sarah (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9781322758077 |
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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Author | : Frances McNamara |
Publisher | : Frances McNamara |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 143920618X |
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With pitch perfect prose, Death at the Fair is full of intelligent plot twists that will keep readers on the edge of their seats to the final page. Set during the Worldâs Columbian Exposition in Chicago, an implacable murderer sets out to claim vengeanceâor so it seems. It is 1893 and all eyes are on the Windy City where Emily Cabot, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, is touring with her family and friends. When one of those friends is found dead, all fingers point to Dr. Stephen Chapman, one-time fiancé of the dead manâs wifeâs. Believing firmly in Dr. Chapmanâs innocence, Emily begins to uncover evidence to the contrary with the help of Ida B. Wells, the famous anti-lynching crusader. Together the women must deal with thieves, gamblers, and dogmatists to uncover a truth, which is far more alarming and insidious than any reader will have imagined.