Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

Oxfeld, Ellen

ISBN 10: 0801499089 / ISBN 13: 9780801499081

Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1993

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This is a volume in Cornell Press's Anthropology of Contemporary Issues in which the author examines "the family dynamics, ethnic role, and ideological orientations of members of a diaspora Chinese community in Calcutta, India". A soft cover first edition this copy is in good condition, tight, with no markings and slight wear.The spine had a crease and corners have slight bump Includes References and index. Seller Inventory # 000362

Bibliographic Details

Title: Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and ...

Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Although they are "pariah capitalists" who face political insecurity in India, the Hakka Chinese have since their migration during the First World War come to control the city of Calcutta's tanning industry. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among the Calcutta Hakka as well as members of their community who have migrated to Toronto, Ellen Oxfeld sheds new light on the complex interrelations among their entrepreneurial ideology, family structures, and ethnicity.