A View on Political Participation of Hakka Ethnicity Settling in Taoyuan County from the Perspective of Regime Shifts between North-Minnan and South-Hakka

• Main Authors: Pao-Lien Huang, 黃寶漣
• Other Authors: A-Ron Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10577477299545483909

碩士 === 元智大學 === 資訊社會學研究所 === 97 === A View on Political Participation of Hakka Ethnicity Settling in Taoyuan County from the Perspective of Regime Shifts between North-Minnan and South-Hakka Graduate Student: Huang, Pao-Lien Advisor: Professor Liu, A-Ron Yuan Ze University Graduate School of Social Informatics Abstract This paper is intended to understand the historical meaning and future development of the ethnic distribution of north-Minnan (Kokkien) and south-Hakka in Taoyuan County, and the regime shifts between both through a full exploration of the phenomenon of regime shifts between north-Minnan (Kokkien) and south-Hakka in Taoyuan County since 1951, and further to criticize the political participation and performance of Hakka ethnicity under regime shifts between north-Minnan (Kokkien) and south-Hakka, and also to reflect the relationship between ethnicity and politics. This study was to adopt qualitative research methods, and to conduct a semi-structured in-depth interview by focusing on 6 towns or cities in northern Taoyuan and 6 towns or cities in southern Taoyuan where the recognition of ethnic population depended on the estimation report for the Investigation and Research of Basic Information of Nationwide Hakka Population made by the Council for Hakka Affairs through external commission in 2004 in order to analyse people’s innermost feelings for the political phenomenon of specific ethnicity of Taoyuan County. The findings of this study are described below: 1. The phenomenon of north-Minnan and south-Hakka in Taoyuan area has occurred that is related with the historical process of Minnan ad Hakka people migrating into Taoyuan, and also other factors such as migration time, geographical environment, living language, ethnic clustering and demarcation of administrative district. 2. For years’ ethnic interaction and social change, it resulted in the population and local development of northern Taoyuan being gradually superior to those of southern Taoyuan, the population gap from original half-Minnan and half-Hakka being enlarging day by day, and the ethnic relationship having changed from an opposition between Minnan and Hakka to the existence of diverse ethnicity. 3. Regime shifts of north-Minnan and south-Hakka surviving in the dependent relationship between Kuomintang (KMT) and local factions has deeply influenced Taoyuan’s local politics for decades. After political democratization, the competition of political resources is expanding by transiting from ethnic distribution to an opposition between political parties, which may destroy an unvoiced pact of regime shifts between both. 4. In the early stages, regime shifts between both may function to quell ethnic disputes, but they seem to be not much helpful to the development of Hakka ethnicity. 5. The balance of local ethnicity is still the first consideration of political party today; however, for political participation of Hakka ethnicity, cultivating potential political talents should be the most urgent. Based on the facts stated above, suggestions for ethnic policy, Hakka ethnicity and other ethnic groups in addition to the orientation of future research may be submitted here for further reference. Keywords: Hakka, Minnan, ethnicity, political participation, regime shifts between north-Minnan and south-Hakka