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Hakka

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Hakka

Member of a people of China dispersed throughout Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand. The Hakka originated in northern China but were driven out by the Mongols in the 12th and 13th centuries. They played a prominent part in the Taiping Rebellion 1851.
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Ellen Oxfeld's thoughtful chapter on a transnational Hakka community in which second wives and concubines appear, shows the difficulties in applying universal categories to specific experiences, giving the reader the disarming insight that "categories [such as cross-border or hypergamy] have a way of escaping your grasp just when you would like to use them" (p.
Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia by Douglass, Michael / Pacific Affairs
Now I can say I am a Hakka, I am a Chinese, and I am also proud to be a Malaysian.
Breaking the legacy of hatred by Heywood, Nigel / For A Change
Languages: Standard Chinese = Mandarin (Putonghua-Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, and Hakka dialects.
China's paper industry: entering the WTO era: despite its unique ... by Xiaorong, Nie / Solutions - for People, Processes and Paper
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