2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A STUDY ON THE CONSTRUCTING PROCESS OF HAKKA IMAGES IN ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS IN JAPAN, TAIWAN, AND MAINLAND CHINA
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16520496
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
SEGAWA Masahisa Tohoku University, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR THE NORTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, PROFESSOR (00187832)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2007
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| Keywords | Hakka / academic studies / ethnography / Mainland China / Taiwan / Japan / discourse / construction of images |
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| Research Abstract |
Past Hakka studies has been so strongly oriented to the demonstration of the orthodoxy of Hakka against other various subgroups of Han-Chinese that it is almost inevitable for them to fall into some important failures: 1) it sometimes prevented researchers from unprejudiced observation of Hakka's cultural traits; 2) it was inclined to exaggerate the uniqueness of Hakka as an ethnic group; 3) it often ignored or underestimated the continuity and interactions beyond the boundary between Hakka and Non-Han ethnic minorities in adjacent areas. But, after 1980s there appeared some researchers in Japan who tried to overcome the old paradigm of Hakka studies, and this tendency has diffused into Mainland China in 1990s. It is from these new orientations in Japan and Mainland that many important breakthroughs came about (including my own works). In 2000s, we have already reached an accomplishment of a paradigm shift, and we are now witnessing a lot of new positive studies in this field such as the work of Iijima [2007] and that of Chai [2005]. Among these new Hakka studies, there included an reconsideration on the relations and the boundary between Hakka and ethnic minorities, and it enables researchers on Hakka and those on ethnic minorities to cooperate for more inclusive understanding of culture and society of South China as well as of China as a whole. In this sense, Hakka studies has at last escaped from their pitfall and reached the point where they can be properly situated within and integrated into the whole structure of anthropological and ethological studies in China.
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Research Products
(12 results)
