Profit, Loss, and Fate
The Entrepreneurial Ethic and the Practice of Gambling in an Overseas Chinese Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6007809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Oxfeld Basu (Middlebury College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-259 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009770049101700203 |
| OpenAlex | W2029946737 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 38 |
Business · Economics · Law and economics · Operations management · Political science · Public economics · Public Administration
Ritual and the Subjunctive
Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Boundaries
Ritual, Play, and Boundaries
Afterword
Ritual and Sincerity
Movements of Ritual and Sincerity
Measuring the Prevalence of Sector-Specific Problem Gambling
Mahjong and Urban Life
A tale of two borderlands
Le jeu pathologique dans la communauté chinoise, une vision anthropologique
Mythologies of Wealth in Platform Economies
Light and Dark Sides of Nonprofit Activities and the Rules to Manage Them
Gambling on the Monsoon in the Indian Desert
Individualism, Holism, and the Market Mentality
Toward a processual approach to digital platforms’ infrastructuralization
Ritual and Its Consequences
We Like to Have Fun
Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage
Are Some Immigrant Entrepreneurs More Privileged Than Others? A Cross-National Comparison of Financial Capital Among Start-ups in the UK and UAE
Petty commodities, serious business
De-Orientalizing the Chinese family firm
The attraction of numbers
The moving boundaries of social heat
The Bumipreneur dilemma and Malaysia's technology start-up ecosystem
Chinese society in the eighteenth century
The great enterprise
Encounters
Interaction Ritual
Distinction
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276
Ethnic Enterprise in America
Max Weber on Capitalism, Bureaucracy and Religion
Gambling
The Great Enterprise
Gambling
Gambling, Work and Leisure
The Convergence of Work, Sport, and Gambling in America
Deep play
Industrial Work as an Entrepreneurial Strategy
The Concept of Fate in Chinese Folk Ideology
Why Do the Chinese Work So Hard
Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Money for the Gods
The Villager as Industrialist
The Sociology of the Betting Shop
A Theory of Middleman Minorities
Numbers Gambling Among Blacks
The sexual division of labor and the organization of family and firm in an overseas Chinese community
Leadership and Authority
The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village
Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century
Under the Ancestor's Shadow
Under the Ancestors' Shadow
The Cultural Construction of Emotion in Rural Chinese Social Life
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |