这是一本描述客家人在海外的家庭和企业发展状况的书，作者欧爱玲以独特的视角为我们展现了在印度加尔各答这个已颇具规模的华人社会的家园，客家人的生活和工作状态。本书从人类学的视角，采用田野调查的研究方法，以加尔各答客家人为主体，聚焦于家庭、企业和种族角色，对客家华人在当地制革业中的优势地位进行了详尽的阐述，纵向分析了第一、第二和第三代华人制革商的家庭和企业结构，并考察了加尔各答客家人向多伦多等世界其它地方的迁移。

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.