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4 unusual facts about Hoklo people


Hoklo

The Hoklo people, a geographically widespread cultural-linguistic group originating in southeast China (Fujian province), also called Hokkien

Jenjarom

Jenjarom has a significant Chinese (Hokkien) population, and the village is the site of the Dong Zen Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple and Institute in Sungai Jarom.

Kota Marudu

It had a population of more than 80,900 people in 2011, made up mainly by Dusun (Kimaragang Dusun, Tobilung, and more), Rungus, Bajau, Orang Sungai, Suluk, and Chinese (mostly Hakka and Hokkien).

Ong Iok-tek

Ong argued that Han people a folk, and not a nation, and that Hakka and Hoklos


Balestier Road

The Hokkiens referred the road as o kio, meaning "black bridge", and as go cho tua peh kong, meaning "Rochor temple".

Taiwanese identity

Of the 23 million people in Taiwan, most are descendants of immigrants from Fujian and identify themselves as Hoklo whilst 15% are descendants of Hakka from Guangdong (Canton) and also Fujian.

During the period of Martial Law, when the Kuomintang (KMT) was the only authorised party to govern Taiwan, the KMT government has "modified" Taiwan's history from a Greater China perspective and lump the pre-existing Hoklo and Hakka with the Mainlanders as Chinese, who came to Taiwan and forced aboriginal communities into the mountains.


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