| dc.description.abstract | Traditional discourse of Hakka women are always relative to good housewives, mothers, even daughters-in-law, taking care of domestic affairs, such as framing, cooking, educating, needle working, and respecting elder generation. For a long time, most people would use multi-images words to give praise to Hakka women for their hard-working. Nowadays, some traditional Hakka families still teach next generation based on these traditional values However, what will it happen when modern women face the traditional Hakka discourse? And How modern Hakka women interpret this discourse and their ethnic identity and social memory?
Family plays a key role in cultural inheritance and sex role for individual development. The Hakka women are viewed the important role in the reproductions of Hakka tradition and sex characters in family. Therefore, this study aims at examining how Hakka mothers develop their family values, and how they interpret motherhood in child-raising in the tension between the Hakka tradition and modern Hakka society.
According to the research, the experiences of young Hakka women in modern society are different from traditional stereotype of Hakka women because of the generation change based on the growth of women’’s awareness and the promotion of women’s status. They redefine the adaptability of traditional virtues, and emphasize the importance of “self” and young Hakka women’s initiative.
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