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

Lui, Mary Ting Yi The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City Princeton: Princeton University Press 298 pp., $29.95 ISBN: 0-691-09196-X Publication Date: November 2004

Mary Ting Yi Lui's book is titled like the lurid anti-Chinese tabloid headlines of the era she covers in this fascinating and complex portrait she draws of Chinese and other ethnic groups in early twentieth century New York City. The Chinatown Trunk Mystery refers, in fact, to a real-life murder case, in which a young white woman named ...

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