How a Community Claims its Agency: A Study of Locality and Space in Lj-jh, Jhubei, Taiwan

• Main Authors: Liu Ru-yi, 劉如意
• Other Authors: Chuang Ya-Chung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87977992874285821865

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 人類學研究所 === 98 === This article will study a series of events in Lj-jh, a village in Jhubei City in central Taiwan, within which the community has made efforts (re)shaping the meanings for its space. Thanks to the state-initiated development of the nearby Science Park in Hsinchu County and the Taiwan High Speed Rail construction the past ten years, Lj-jh, a traditional Hakka village, has seen Hakka styled building and farmlands, along with the life style and local culture, being replaced by public infrastructures and new housing development. Identity crises have inevitably been in place with the diminishing of local Hakka culture. Community leaders have risen up starting off activities to restore and reclaim their own cultural as well as identity, such as “flower drum band”, a Hakka music and dance troupe, and “Hsin Wa Wu” cultural theme park, a traditional Hakka housing compound turning to a exhibition center. I will examine the contexts and historical processes within which those activities are possible. And more importantly, I will seek to analyze what all of those mean to the locals and what that construction of the locality means to the relations between the state and community in Taiwan.