The Hakka are a Chinese ethnolinguistic minority group. The word "Hakka" means "guest people" or "newcomers" in Yue (Cantonese) and reflects their migration from central to southern China from about the ninth...

For other uses, see Hakka (disambiguation). Henan, Shanxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces The Hakka (Mandarin: Kèjīa) are a subgroup of the Han Chinese people who live predominantly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian in China....

Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors. By LEONG SOW-THENG. Edited by TIM WRIGHT. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 234. $45 (cloth). Ethnic identity is forged not just by psychology, but by material forces....

LEONG, SOW-THENG. Edited by Tim Wright with an introduction and map by G. William Skinner. xx, 234 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press; Cambridge: Univ. Press, distributors, 1997. [pounds]30.00 Sinological anthropology has often been constrained in its broader theoretical scope and...

Taiwan is considering abandoning its long-standing policy of recognizing Mandarin Chinese as the island's only official language, the premier said Tuesday, in a move that would likely anger rival China.Su Tseng-chang said the Cabinet is examining a draft for a "National Language Development Act" to...