| dc.description.abstract | The old name of Liujia District of Zhubei City, Hsinchu County was “Wu Lun Mao Mao Bu”, in which Taokas people have carried out deer-hunting and cultivation. Since 1731, Han people has entered and exploited this district, and the Han’s exploiting activities took off after the immigration of the Lin family (from Raoping County, Guangdong Province) in 1752. The water resource of this district was abundant; as the building up of systems of canals and irrigation ditches, thousands of hectares of farms were all over the field. The agricultural settlement here lasted for 2 hundred years, which bred unique and abundant life styles and Yimin faiths in Hakka settlement. Until 1992, the government declared that the THSR Hsinchu Station will be built in the Liujia District, which shocked the tranquil village as if a thunder rolled in the open field. In 2000, the government initiated zone expropriation, which led to a catastrophe: it made the farms disappear, disintegrated the Hakka settlement, disrupted the social networks in life of habitants, and a large number of migrants entered the district. As the rapid development of THSR, a lot of skyscrapers appeared in Liujua district, and the groups here diversified.
The site of this study is Liujia District of Zhubei City (Hsinchu County), and the subject of the study is the Hakka people whose age is above 30 years old and who constantly live here. The topic is Hakka identity. We took the aspect of language, “language usage”, “attitude about language”, and “selection of language”, and the aspect of ethnic identity, “identity”, “attitude about ethnic group”, and “dedication to ethnic group” as index for analysis. We mainly took literature analysis and in-depth interview with the assistance of field observation: literature analysis is to induction of the historic background; in-depth interview is aimed at clarify the situation of ethnic identity among the people. Ethnic identity is a highly fluid, which will alter according to the social changes. In order to adjust to the environment, the reaction of the people is to change their behavior and attitude, which is undoubtedly a camouflage under the principle “survival of the fittest”. And we found that: A. the Hakaa language used by people is mainly Hailu accent, and the Raoping accent was
assimilated; B. most of the Hakka language users use it passively. They are above 50 years old, and they make a living by agriculture. Those who retired or still live in the communities use Hakka language more actively; C. the phenomenon that Mandarin became the main language in the society resulted from the fact that most of the immigrant population were young and that service industry replaced agriculture as the main industry; D. the ancestor is indispensable in Hakka identity; E. Bogong faith is the reviving power to cohere Hakka identity.
Keywords: Liujia District of Zhubei City, Hakka Settlement,
THSR Urban Planning, Ethnic Identity
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