客家的建构和想象——以马来西亚槟城大伯公信仰和海陆丰社群为例

Abstract:The purpose of the paper is to revise the Hakka study which has obtained the concern of scholars from local and abroad. Nearly a decade，the rising of Hakka study from Taiwan’s scholars have catalyzed the Hakka’s study and boosting the Hakka’s self-identity in Malaysia. Then the paper intend to explore whether or not the Hakka’s scholars created the Hakka imagination and the process of “Hakkanization” has been made up when the Hakka’s scholar and leaders were looking for the Hakka’s elements in Malaysia. This is a cross-discipline study of which the historical and thropological. methods have been applied. Besides of utilizing the official records during British colonial period，the paper also uses the Chinese epigraphical materials，newspapers and oral history in order to provide the empirical and concrete findings for rethinking the Hakka study.

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