Re: Hakka resources

[sllee <sllee@asiawind.com>]

William,

You can try the book by Chen Yun Dong "KeJia Ren", assuming you can read
Chinese. It is a well written book on the origin of Hakka etc. Since Chen
resides in Taiwan, he has more coverage on Taiwan. I have read Lo Xiang
Lin's book long time ago but have lost mine. I know they are the pioneer
studies of Hakka. Much of the Hakka migration theory is derived from his
research. All these can be found in the reference section of my webpage.

A lof of the Hakka customs etc came from living in a Hakka family. These
tidbits are difficult to summarize. 

I am forwarding this email to the Hakka forum and maillist so may be
others can help you out too. You are welcome to join our discussion in
both by writing to the Cc addresses and watching the forum for new msg.

Good luck for your paper.

SL Lee

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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, William Cheung wrote:

> Dear S.L. Lee,
> 
> I am a Stanford University undergraduate planning to involve the Hakka
> ethnic group into a research paper that I am writting. It paper itself
> is about Chinese diaspora and internal migration, and I was hoping to
> focus a major portion of it on the migration and settlement of the Hakka
> group into Southern China.
> 
> It would be greatly appreciated if you can supply a few suggestions for
> ideas and resources that might be helpful for my endevour. The names of
> books, articles and things of the sort that you have read or used to
> create the web pages would be very useful too.
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Sincerely,
> William Cheung
> 
> --
> A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly,
> science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
> Hence University education.   ~ George Bernard Shaw
> 
>