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Hakka

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Noun1.Hakka - a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century
Chinese - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
2.Hakka - a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka
Hakka dialect
Chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system


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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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