| 英文摘要 |
The Hakka studies traditionally tend to emphasize the norms and cultural value regarding farming and farmland of the Hakka people, and assert that the bond between the Hakka people and the farming rural area is much closer comparing to the other Han people. It seems that the urban life of the Hakka people only takes place after their migration to the city. As a result, when discussing the urban Hakka settlements, scholars oftentimes adopt the rural urban migration perspective, focusing on the decline of Hakka identity, the challenge of cultural heritage, and the endangering Hakka language. Such a viewpoint, however, neglects that fact that many Hakka people nowadays live in the urban area because of the expansion of city borders rather than the rural-urban migration. It, moreover, assumes an essential homogeneity among contemporary Hakka people. The Erzhong community, located on the outskirt of the Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, serves as an example to rethink the urban life of contemporary Hakka people. Encountering rapid urbanization and immigration of new settlers due to the growth of the Hsinchu Science Industrial Park, the Erzhong’s Hakka settlement traditionally based on kinship and local network has experienced urban expansion and the coming of new urban planning. Its community organization assembles resources from the Community Empowerment/Development Project and the Hakka Affairs Council and collaborates with some early localized settler to cope with the new urban conditions. By cultural recreation such as the transformation of traditional Land God religious practices, the Hakka people living in Erzhong have endeavored to carry out their cultural heritage. |