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Contents
Introduction
What Does It Mean to Be Hakka?
NICOLE CONSTABLE
1/ The Hakka or “Guest People”
Dialect as a Sociocultural Variable in Southeast China
MYRON L. COHEN
2/ Hakka Villagers in a Hong Kong City
The Original People of Tsuen Wan
ELIZABETH LOMINSKA JOHNSON
3/ Poverty, Piety, and the Past
Hakka Christian Expressions of Hakka Identity
NICOLE CONSTABLE
4/ Form and Content in Hakka Malaysian Culture
SHARON A. CARSTENS
5/ Still “Guest People”
The Reproduction of Hakka Identity in Calcutta, India
ELLEN OXFELD
6/ The Hakka Ethnic Movement in Taiwan, 1986–1991
HOWARD J. MARTIN
7/ The Hakka Paradox in the People’s Republic of China
Exile, Eminence, and Public Silence
MARY S. ERBAUGH