num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community
titlecomplete: Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
genres: China
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Cornell University Press