After more than four hundred years on the island, Taiwan’s Hakka people still exist as a solid and unified community. Their famous work ethic, love of education, and cultural, political, and other contributions have been central in the creation of the island’s sociocultural masterpiece — the wonderful and distinctive mosaic of peoples and free individual expression that its inhabitants are weaving together. Here is the story. The Hakka believe themselves northerners, direct descendants of nobility from the Yellow River cradle of Chinese civilization. When moving south they were shut off from prime land in flat areas and forced to move

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