Author: Oxfeld, Ellen
Title: Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii, 291 pp. Textual photos & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Family Trajectories & Pariah Enterprise: Hakka Chinese Tanners of Calcutta; Research in an Ethnic Matrix; The Emergence of an Entrepreneurial Community: History & Social Organization; Profit, Loss, & Fate: Gambling & the Entrepreneurial Ethic; No Instant Success: The First Generation; "Wife's Wealth": The Familial Division of Labor & Income; " Branches of a Tree": Family & Firm in the Second & Third Generations; Individualism, Holism, & the Profit Motive: Mr. Zhou's Story; Epilogue: Immigrants & Visitors in Toronto.

Keywords: Social Anthropology, Hakka Chinese, Calcutta Kolkata, India South Asia, Ethnic Minorities, Minority Sociology, Entrepreneurs, Ethnicity Tanners, Economic History