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In the recent two decades, researchers have shifted their focus from the definitions of Hakka to the emergence of such ethnicity, including its background of timing, geopolitics and the transformation of Hakka’s semantic meaning. The emergence and transformation of Hakka imagination are firmly related to the developmental history of the entire Hakka communities. The actors from various institutions including government sectors and local organizations have launched their Hakka imaginations with different purposes. Hence, the content of institutional Hakka imaginations would change along with the shifting of temporal and spatial context, as well as each organization’s transformations.
By reviewing the paradigm shift of the Hakka imagination from the perspective of sociology of knowledge, this article analysis of the narratives of Hakka imaginations proposed by Hakka scholars joined hands with Hong Kong Tsung Tsin Association, as well as the transnational phenomenon of Hakka from 1971, indicating that the emergence of global Hakka imagination was rooted from a special historical context but diverse through the political-economic competence as well as the social-cultural debates.
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