Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong
Author: Ellen Oxfeld
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 320
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Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong
Author: Ellen Oxfeld
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780801499081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough 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.
Economic Development, Integration, and Morality in Asia and the Americas
Author: Donald Wood
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2009-04-09
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1848555423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores economic development, integration, and morality in economic transactions in Asia and the America. This title includes chapters that look at underground gambling behavior in China in light of that country's economic boom and retail store expansion and local socioeconomic effects in rural Mexico.
Abacus and Mah Jong
Author: Marina Carter
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9004175725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work aims to engage with the complexities surrounding evaluations of ethnic and national identity - a focus of recent interest by scholars from a range of disciplines including political science, anthropology and economics - through a case study of Chinese migration to and settlement in Mauritius. The book investigates the complex mechanisms and processes involved in the transplantation of groups of people within the colonial context, and in particular seeks to create a tableau within which the construction of a mythology of migration is set against the realities of negotiation and communication with the wider society.
Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities
Author: Jayati Bhattacharya
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2015-03
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1783083638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities. Growing out of an international workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, this volume explores material, cultural and imaginative features of the immigrant communities and brings together these two important communities within a comparative framework.
Digital Anthropology
Author: Heather A. Horst
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1000189503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become. Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Earth, Digital Anthropology explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another, from avatars and disability; cultural differences in how we use social networking sites or practise religion; the practical consequences of the digital for politics, museums, design, space and development to new online world and gaming communities. The book also explores the moral universe of the digital, from new anxieties to open-source ideals. Digital Anthropology reveals how only the intense scrutiny of ethnography can overturn assumptions about the impact of digital culture and reveal its profound consequences for everyday life. Combining the clarity of a textbook with an engaging style which conveys a passion for these new frontiers of enquiry, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies and sociology.
Helping Out
Author: Miri Song
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-06-30
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1439906181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of children's work roles in ethnic businesses.
Living Rooms as Factories
Author: Ping-Chun Hsiung
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011-02-02
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 143990765X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed portrait and sophisticated analysis of married women working Taiwan's export factories.
Chinese Business and the Asian Crisis
Author: David Fu-Keung Ip
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-26
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1000160645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2000: The Asian financial crisis and its aftermath provide a crucible in which Chinese diaspora capitalism has been tested, and a prism through which its strengths and weaknesses may be seen in a different light. The papers collected in this volume are in many ways still tentative. Some represent work-in-progress reports on as yet uncompleted research. In other cases, outcomes explored are still unclear or have not even yet fully unfolded. The aim is to focus on the consquences for diaspora Chinese capitalists and to start trying to identify losers and winners in the new landscape, re-evaluating their business culture, strategies and modes of operation, and their likely future direction and potential. The book begins by setting the scene for the Asian crisis and the achievements of the "Asian miracle". It then goes on to examine the causes of the financial crash, the firms that were able to ride the crisis, the Taiwanese economy as a whole, the fortunes of diaspora ventures in China, the small and medium enterprises at the heart of Chinese diaspora capitalism, the impact of the crisis on large Chinese business groups, and finally, the book debunks the theory that the rise of East Asia was initiated by Japan.
Sex, Love, and Migration
Author: Alexia Bloch
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1501709410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of women is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation as migration fundamentally reshapes women's emotional worlds and aspirations. Bloch documents how, as women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey since the early 1990s, they have forged new forms of intimacy in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often work for years on end. Sex, Love, and Migration takes as its subject the lives of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three distinct spheres—sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work. Bloch challenges us to decouple images of women on the move from simple assumptions about danger, victimization, and trafficking. She redirects our attention to the aspirations and lives of women who, despite myriad impediments, move between global capitalist centers and their home communities.
