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unusual facts about hakka



Bishan

The burial ground was established in 1870 by immigrants who largely came from the three prefectures of Kwong Chow (廣州府, Cantonese), Wai Chow (惠州府, Hakka) and Siew Heng (肇慶府, Cantonese) in Guangdong Province, China.

Hakka Chinese

The popular The Little Prince has also been translated into Hakka (2000), specifically the Miaoli dialect of Taiwan (itself a variant of the Sixian dialect).

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).

Meinong

Meinong District (美濃區), a famous Hakka-concentrated district in Kaohsiung, Republic of China (Taiwan).

Muhammad bin Tughluq

Several south Indian rulers like Prolaya Vema Reddy of the Reddy dynasty, Musunuri Kaapaaneedu and Hakka and Bukka of the

New Formosa Band

They first became popular in 1992 and are important musicians in the genres of hakka and New Taiwanese Song.

Ong Iok-tek

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

Pakistani people

There are countless other ethnic groups that make up part of Pakistani's mosaic such as the Bengalis, Burmese, Hazara, Tajik, Persian, Arab and Hakka; the last are an ethnic group that traces its origin to China.

Sichuanese Mandarin

The vocabulary of Sichuanese has three main origins: Bashu (or Ancient Sichuanese), Middle Chinese and the languages of the immigrants, including Proto-Mandarin from Hubei, Xiang, Gan and Hakka, which were brought to Sichuan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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.

Wong Pow Nee

He was born in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, the son of Cecilia Foo and Wong Ee Chin, a hardworking Hakka timber merchant and building developer of the Catholic faith.

Yiaway Yeh

Of Hakka descent, Yeh's grandfather was born in Mei County, Guangdong, China in 1909 and moved to Taiwan in 1949 following the Chinese Civil War.


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