The Hakka Affairs Council yesterday released a collection of stories highlighting people who have returned or moved to Hakka communities.
Hakka communities refer to areas that have been listed as “key development areas of Hakka culture” by the council.
Under the Hakka Basic Act (客家基本法), townships, cities and districts in which Hakka make up more than one-third of the total population are listed as “key development areas of Hakka culture” to “enhance the inheritance and development of the Hakka language, culture, and cultural industries.”
Photo: CNA
The new book, titled Zon Loi Liau, expands on a 50-episode television program — Hsing Chuan Wo Chuang (行轉我庄) — the council produced with Formosa TV last year, the council said.
In the program, which can be watched online, people who have settled down in Hakka communities share their stories about living there, their interactions with the land and how they have found themselves, it said.
In the book, the council brings together the stories of 66 entrepreneurs and young people living and working in Hakka communities, the council said, adding that it is available for purchase.
Some of the people are successful businesspeople who have returned to their hometowns to give back to the local community, while others are young farmers incorporating new technology in their practices, it said.
In Hakka, zon (轉) means “return,” council Minister Yiong Con-ziin (楊長鎮), who wrote the foreword for the book, said at the launch of the book in Taipei.
To return also implies a fulfillment of one’s nostalgia for the land, he said.
Yiong, a Hakka born in Miaoli County, said that he admires and envies people who return to live in Hakka communities.
The council has released a booklet along with the book containing text written by Hakka author Kao Yi-feng (高翊峰) for the television program last year.
Kao’s text was used to introduce each episode in the series.
Additional reporting by CNA
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching