The Hakka (客家 ) People and My Family

Genealogy

IAS 2580 Jason Chung鍾展昇

A Short History!

• Original Han people or ethnic minority?

• Early official dialect?– Some evidence seems to suggest this

• Origins somewhere in Henan• Migrations throughout history• Conflicts with local communities

Conflicts With Neighbours

• 1270 – End of Song Dynasty• The Punti (本地 )• The Hakka• Symbiotic relationship• 1855-67

– Punti-Hakka Clan War

客 家

Guest Family

Strong Resentments On Both Sides

“If you were to ask a thorough-bred Punti about the character of the Hakkas, he would…tell you that the Hakkas are quite beneath your notice, that they are a kind of semi-barbarians, living in poverty and filth”

Eitel, Ethnographical Studies, p81

“A clever but malicious and sneaking set of people”

My Family

• Origins in Henan• My family got its surname for

services in the army, • Named after a mountain called

‘Chung Li’• Earliest records show that my branch

comes from second son of three about 2000 years ago, perhaps Sui or early Tang Dynasty

My Family 鍾

• Moved to Hong Kong about 300 years ago from Fujian

• Man Uk Bin( 萬屋边 )

My Family 鍾

Man Uk Bin ( 萬屋边 )

My Family 鍾

My Family 鍾

• Moved to Hong Kong about 300 years ago from Fujian

• Man Uk Bin( 萬屋边 )• Distant Grandmother surnamed Fu• I’m descended from her second of four

children• Other families: Fu, Tong and Lau• I’m 13th generation since moving to Hong

Kong and 24th since traceable records.

My Family 鍾

My Family 鍾

Sources

• http://www.muztagh.com/map-of-china• http://www.holytrinityrichmond.org.uk/projects.htm• http://www.asiawind.com/hakka• Constable, N., 1996, Guest People: Hakka Identity in China

and Abroad, USA, University of Washington Press• Leong, S. T., 1997, Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese

History: Hakkas ed. Wright, T., Pengmin and Their Neighbors, Stanford, Stanford University Press

• My dad, uncle