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Blood, sweat, and mahjong : family and enterprise in an overseas Chinese community Ellen Oxfeld
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks DS 432 .C5 O94 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oxfeld, Ellen, 1953-
- Series:
- Anthropology of contemporary issues
- Cornell paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--India--Calcutta.
- Chinese.
- India--Ethnic relations.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 291 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
- Contents:
- A Note on Chinese Romanization and Names
- 1. Family Trajectories and Panah Enterprise: Hakka Chinese Tanners of Calcutta
- 2. Research in an Ethnic Matrix
- 3. The Emergence of an Entrepreneunal Community: History and Social Organization
- 4. Profit, Loss, and Fate: Gambling and the Entrepreneurial Ethic
- 5. No Instant Success: The First Generation
- 6. "Wife's Wealth": The Familial Division of Labor and Income
- 7. "Branches of a Tree": Family and Firm in the Second and Third Generations
- 8. Individualism, Holism, and the Profit Motive: Mr. Zhou's Story
- Epilogue: Immigrants and Visitors in Toronto.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-283) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oxfeld, Ellen, 1953- Blood, sweat, and mahjong.
- ISBN:
- 080142593X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801425936 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801499089 (paper : alk. paper)
- 9780801499081 (paper : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 28217017
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