The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to explore the interconnection between Sun Yat-sen's Revolution and the Hakkas in East Asian Chinese Communities. There are two main purposes of the research: first, to explore Sun Yat-sen's interconnection with the Hakkas in Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia to promote the Chinese Revolutionary Movement; second, to analyze the interconnection between Sun Yat-sen and the Hakka Movement in Taiwan.
There are two main research questions:
1. What is the interconnection between the Chinese Revolutionary Movement promoted by Sun Yat-sen and the Hakkas in Japan and Southeast Asia?
2. What is the interconnection between Sun Yat-sen and the Hakka Movement in Taiwan? What influence did Sun Yat-sen have on the development of the Hakka Movement in Taiwan today (after 1945)?
The main approaches of this doctoral dissertation is to adopt the "Historical Approach" and "Political Approach" on the one hand, and also tries to use the possibility of the "Hakka Approach" to explore the interconnection between Sun Yat-sen's Revolution and East Asian Hakka. As for the methods, it is mainly based on "Document Analysis", supplemented by "Field Survey".
The main focus of this doctoral dissertation can be divided into three key points:
1. About the interconnection between the Sun Yat-sen's Revolution and the Hakkas;
2. About the interconnection between the Sun Yat-sen's Revolution and the "Hakka Factors" in overseas Chinese communities;
3. About the interconnection between the Sun Yat-sen's Revolution and the Hakkas in Taiwan.
There are five main points:
1. Sun Yat-sen is both a Hakka and a Cantonese in China.
2. The important background of Sun Yat-sen's success in promoting the Chinese Revolutionary Movement, including the "Hakka Factors".
3. Among the success factors of Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Revolution, Chiu Feng-chia and the "Hakka Factors" played an important role.
4. Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary cause has great enlightening significance for the contemporary " Hakka Movement in Taiwan " and has a profound impact on the development of the Hakkas.
5. The "Hakka Approach" and the "Elite Research" in the social sciences have made substantial research contributions to this thesis.