Author: Samuel Ho
Date: 09-25-04 13:09
The flight of Chinese to include Hakkas did not happen after the downfall of Hong Xiuquan, i.e. the failure of the Taiping Revolt in 1864.
There was an earlier flee in the mid-1600s inespecially to follow the early Ching's effort to put down the Revolt of the Three Feudatories ("Fanqing Fuming") from the remnants of the defeated Mings in Yunnan, Guangdong and Fujian. That flight caused many of the southern Chinese to include the Hakkas to cross the straits with Koxinga to Taiwan.
Yet another migration occurred in the days prior to and during the Opium Wars 1839-60 before the Taiping Revolt caused by poverty in the southern Guangdong-Fujian hill villages, the new opportunites of work and wealth in the southern coastal ports of China and overseas especially Nanyang (Southeast Asia).
It is therefore incorrect to say that "Hong's downfall, his people fled to southeast Asia".
There is yet greater migration and flight of southern Chinese in the 100 years of wars and upheavals in the period from the end of the Opium Wars to the triumphant victory of the Communist in Mainland China.
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