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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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Table 1 Voting Patterns in the Presidential Elections of 2000 and 2004, by Ethnic Background (by percentage) Ethnic background of voters Votes % Holos Hakkas Mainlanders Aborigines estimates 2000 Chen Shui-bian 54.
Domestic and international considerations of Taiwan's 2004 ... by Henderson, Robert D'A. / Pacific Affairs
American missionaries, Chinese bandits, and the Hakkas of the Taiping Rebellion led by the Christian convert Hong Xiuquan in the year of "Yi-ba-liu-si" (1864) are arrayed to manage the alienness.
"Chinese and Dogs" in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses: ... by Ma, Sheng-mei / MELUS
Thus, the Hakkas (to whom Hong himself belonged) claim to have migrated from the north sometime during the Tang dynasty.
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Haar, Barend J. ter / Journal of Social History
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