published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

鄧雅姸. / "2000年" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2000. / 參考文獻 (leaves 86-91) / 附中英文摘要. / "2000 nian" / Deng Yayan. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2000. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 86-91) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章 --- 前言 --- p.1-5 / Chapter 第二章 --- 青衣客族源流和村際關係 --- p.6-32 / Chapter 第一節 --- 淸初遷界與新界聚落的發展 / Chapter 第二節 --- 青衣客家族源和建村歷史 / Chapter 第三節 --- 「村際網絡」及其演變 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 / Chapter 第三章 --- 從傳統農業到多元化經濟 --- p.33-59 / Chapter 第一節 --- 青衣島交通發展與經濟轉型的關係 / Chapter 第二節 --- 青衣客家村民的傳統經濟生活 / Chapter 第三節 --- 青衣島的發展對村民生活的影響 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 / Chapter 第四章 --- 教育與文化習俗的傳承 --- p.60-80 / Chapter 第一節 --- 港英政府統治下的新界文教風俗 / Chapter 第二節 --- 從ˇёإ村學塾至新式學校教育 / Chapter 第三節 --- 客家傳統習俗和信仰的保存 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 / Chapter 第五章 --- 結語 --- p.81-85 / 參考資料 --- p.86-91

This research is an investigation into Hakka shange 客家山歌 (Hakka mountain songs) and their relationship with Hakka ethnicity, with principal discussions on the interplay between music making and ethnic/cultural identity in the Hakka populations. Hakka is a complex ethnic and cultural phenomenon which stepped into the limelight of history beginning in the 19th century. This study includes research into archival materials for an in-depth understanding of Hakka ethnicity and Hakka shange in the context of historical development, aiming to obtain new information/data and insights into historical data and theories documented by earlier studies. In this study, both synchronic and diachronic aspects are covered. Framed in an ethnomusicological paradigm, which posits music as part of culture and social life and utilises ethnography as a major means of gathering data, the study incorporates fieldwork carried out on location in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland as an essential component. Seeing cultures as fluid and adaptable to outer forces rather than as a monolithic entity, the aim of this study is not to seize the “last opportunity” to preserve records of Hakka shange, before this musical tradition declines further into oblivion, but rather, to account for the processes by which traditional music adapts to the global system at various local levels. It is noteworthy that, in the local-global continuum, a society is not conceived as a static and structured system in which music is performed as a mere cultural marker that connects to or reflects the other structural parts of that society. On the contrary, a society is seen as a flexible and fluid social space in which music plays an active, transformational role. / published_or_final_version / Music / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

After the return to China, the Hong Kong Government finally decided in January 2008 to reduce the Frontier Closed Area (FCA) coverage from about 2,800 hectares to about 400 hectares and over half of the people residing inside the current FCA are no longer required to have a closed area permit to enter or leave the excised area. For over a century, Lin Ma Hang villagers, especially some Hakka women, can be considered as ambassadors promoting communication between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. They not only witnessed the changing relations between China and Britain, but they also moved between different identities as Chinese, Hakka and Hong Kong people. The history of Lin Ma Hang records the experience of a group of Chinese refugees with Hakka consciousness, mostly with the surname Yip, who lived under British and subsequently Japanese rule and became Hong Kong people after the Second World War. It also highlights the complex and multi-layered nature of Hakka identity. / Emphasis has been placed on the manifestations and material culture of Hakka people, studies into their internal consciousness has not attracted much attention. Lin Ma Hang is a specific case to look into the Hakim psychology in the context of a closed area. Adjacent to the boundary between Hong Kong and the Mainland China, this is an indigenous Hakka-speaking village. For many years during the Qing Dynasty, its villagers had to walk on a bridge that enabled them to reach their farmland located on the other side of the Shenzhen River. However, after the Qing Government's signed unequal treaty, Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory in 1898 which allowed Britain to lease the New Territories, the original village area of Lin Ma Hang was divided into two parts - the Chinese side and the British side, with the Shenzhen River serving as the boundary. Indigenous villagers from Lin Ma Hang, which came under the jurisdiction of Britain, continued to cross this bridge to the Chinese side, just like their forefathers. Such border-crossing practice was maintained even during the 1960s when the Mainland China suffered a famine which led to mass exoduses of people and political and social turmoil such as the Cultural Revolution. Since the 1980s, the entire village has been enclosed by iron fences by the British for security reasons, which posed a formidable obstacle to the villagers' daily lives and travelling to nearby markets, and a psychological imprisonment in the minds of villagers, and their gradual loss of control of their farmland. However, it appears that the spirit of endurance embedded in Hakka culture had enabled them to overcome all types of obstacles and reestablish their confidence to communicate with the outside world, continuing their fight for the opening up of the closed area. / Using Lin Ma Hang Village in Sha Tau Kok, Hong Kong's New Territories as a case study, this thesis gives an historical account of how indigenous villagers living in the border area adjusted to political and social changes following the lease of the New Territories by Britain until Hong Kong's return to China, and how they inherited the Hakka culture through different ways. / With the case study of the Lin Ma Hang Hakka village, this thesis attempts to explore the Hakka culture that has been ignored by Hong Kong people. It signifies how an indigenous village, which was divided up due to political reasons, survives through its unique ways. / 阮志偉. / Adviser: Hok Ming Frederick Cheung; Pui Yin Ho. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-321). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Ruan Zhiwei.

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Music / Master / Master of Philosophy