Flying Over the Hakka Village: The Unexpected Master

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Traditional breakfast shops offering soy milk, fried dough sticks, and pastries are typical across Taiwan. But do you know that most of the shop owners in Taipei actually have a Hakka background and might be somewhat related? One of the shop owners, Chiu Wen-chen, who hailed from Sihu of Miaoli, explains the lesser-known history and how Hakka's mutual help culture played a role in building a network of such breakfast shops in Taipei.


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Flying Over the Hakka Village

(English/Mandarin subtitles can be enabled in player subtitle settings.) Fan Wen-fang is a Hakka poet. He has been an enthusiastic participant in Hakka mother tongue creation, teaching, and writing in Hakka for many years, and often writes academic papers on Hakka language, history, and songs in H