Cultural Exhibition, Ethnic Consciousness and Taiwanese politics : "the New Things" such as Hakka Cultural Activities and Facility

• Main Authors: Pei-Hua Lin, 林佩樺
• Other Authors: 陳其南
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bqjjej

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 博物館研究所碩士班 === 104 === Over the past three decades of Hakka Movement, Hakka Culture is the most discussed and exercised one among all issues. All the outputs such as cultural activities, lectures, educational programs, festivals, museums, academic studies, and books keep popping out. These outputs are seen to be related to the fight for rights and interests by the Hakka ethnic group. To clarify these phenomena, this study sets out from the discussion concerning ethnic politics of Hakka and their actions and practices. Through analyzing cases of cultural outputs and political issues, especially in the case of the making of Taipei City Hakka Cultural Park, the researcher is able to observe the expanding discourses and imaginations of Hakka ethnic, then discussed the relationship between ethnic politics and cultural representation in postwar Taiwan. This study finds out that as the ethnic politics developing in postwar Taiwan, Hakka ethnic groups had taken culture issues as a kind of political action: to emphasize the unique of Hakka culture, giving the new value and significance. It’s been proved that Hakka cultural issues are politic issues. Moreover, Hakka culture had come into symbols, been performed and represented in forms of Yimin Temples, Tung Blossom Festivals, and museums. By representing those symbols, Hakka ethnic groups are repeatedly reconstructing their culture and identity. Furthermore, this phenomenon shows the importance of culture, symbol, and conception in contemporary society. It means that the consumption of symbols has turned into part of the identity-making process. This had become the specific background that Hakka political/cultural issues derived from; it could partly explain why Hakka cultural issues have taken a role irreplaceable in Hakka ethnic politics, and how those phenomena emerged through the representation and embodiment of Hakka culture.