By drawing on the discourse of nine carefully selected journal articles, this paper substantiates the author's observation that, as an emerging research field, Hakka studies in Taiwan have experienced a significant paradigm shift in the post–Hakka movement era, especially after 2000. Four paradigm shifts were identified in the aforementioned articles. The first shift is from the perspective of emigrant Hakka individuals in Taiwan to the indigenized Taiwanese Hakka; the second shift is from a narrowly defined "geographical localism" to a socially scientific understanding of an "ethnic group" and "ethnic interaction"; the third shift is from settlement history studies to ethnic politics and related policy research; and the fourth shift is from comparisons with the origins of the Hakka people's ancestry to comparison with the Hakka people of the world.