Director Ho Chin-liang of the Taiwan Hakka Culture Development Center stated that the Taiwan Hakka Museum aims to become a global center for Hakka research. It was an honor to receive Associate Professor Kawai Hironao of Tokyo Metropolitan University and others, who visited the Museum’s latest exhibition, biang jiangˊ : Striving Towards Our Beautiful Homeland, as well as its collections vault. Together, they discussed about displaying the research outcomes on the Taiwanese Hakka at Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology. The hope is to bring Taiwanese Hakka culture to the global stage for it to play a significant role in the future era of Hakka globalism.
Overseas exchanges on Hakka studies and inter-institutional collaborations are constantly promoted to further propel the Taiwan Hakka Museum to gradually evolve into a global Hakka museum, library, and information center.On December 16, 2017, the Taiwan Hakka Culture Development Center, Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University signed an agreement for academic and research collaboration and exchange. The three parties have taken turns to organize three international academic symposiums and publish three resulting monographs in the Taiwan Hakka Culture Development Center (2017), Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology (2018), and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (2019), respectively.
Furthermore, Associate Professor Kawai Hironao and his team recorded the entirety of the yimin (fallen soldiers of civilian militias) worship ceremony from September 2 to 4 at the Yimin Temple in Xinpu, Hsinchu. On September 8, they were joined by Associate Professor Fukayama Naoko of Tokyo Metropolitan University to visit the Liugdui Hakka Cultural Park, the Vudai community of the Drekay indigenous people in Pingtung, and Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park, as to advance research on the relationship between the Hakka and indigenous peoples.
