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The Genealogy Compilation and Analysis of Contemporary Taiwanese Lian Family / 當代臺灣練氏族譜的製作與分析:從修譜者角度所作的反身性研究

碩士 / 國立高雄師範大學 / 客家文化研究所 / 104 / This study aims at exploring the compilation of contemporary genealogy as well as the meaning of it being presented to Taiwanese society. The source of information in the study comes from the basic achievement and the thoughts during the process through the five-year genealogy compilation of Tingzhou Hakkas, the Lians from Shiman District of New Taipei City. Genealogy is a crucial foundation of the Han patriarchal system as well as the glory and identification of its members. The researcher found that the part of genealogy study is the accordance of migrating route, and the other part of it is exploring the meaning and the compilating process of specific family through the reorganization of studies related to genealogy. This study belongs to the latter according to the goal and methods. The Taiwanese Lians in northern coastal area moved to Wuping Couty in Fujian in Ching Dynasty, and they flourished when gathering Alibang, at the same time doing farming known as” Lian I-Cheng.” Part of the members can still memorize the Hakka words of Wuping tone. The Hakka Conciousness has been weakened and has become even worse because of evaculation due to the consturction of the first nuclear powerplant in Alibang Village in 1970s. The researchers experiences the evaculation and started exploring the origin of the Lians, thus began the unstopped study of genealogy until now. The researcher tried his best to collect the different versions of genealogy from each periond of times and made records of the truth, the goodness and the beauty of them. The study throughly described the process from the thoughts, prliminary preparation, genealogy collecting to formal compilation. The study also did a comparison between what has been changed as well as deleted of five-versions genealogies from Ching Dynasty through now. The contemparaty law puts an empasis on equal rights between men and women, thus the researcher advocated putting women into the genealogy made by himself, which has never been seen in the old versions. The comclusion of the study points out that what has been put into the genealogy is subjective because the the researcher did have the experience of compiiling genealogy and he also becomes a researcher of Hakka by chance. Therefore, not only did he observe and get the first-handed information but digging out the hidden messages behind the compilation of genealogy which couldn’t be found by readers and even didn’t be mentioned by the researcher at fthe very first beginning. As a self-study, the researcher sound that the compilation isn’t neutral, and what was been written in it and the meaning of formal patriarchal system caused pressure and did harm to part of members instead. Even so, however, the function of genealogy has obviously changed in present times, and it leads the researcher to make a more serious consideration of how it should be among the genealogy which is going to be finished. This self-study is expected to be a contribution of how the Tingzhou Hakkas find the family origin, face the seperation of their members, and present an observation of contemporary family tree compilation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/104NKNU0774005
Date January 2016
CreatorsLIEN, CHAO-CHIA, 練肇嘉
ContributorsHUNG, HSIN-LAN, 洪馨蘭
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format160

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