Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:10 Last Updated on Monday, 19 July 2010 08:07
The Curious History of the Hakka and the Tulou
If you are interested in the Hakka and the tulous you may also be interested in my selection of photos from Fujian or the blog I wrote on our trip to Fujian. Please click these links to enter either piece.
Much of the content of this article, on the Hakka and the Tulous, can be regarded as a hypothesis rather than an entirely factual piece. There is far too much contradictory information, of variable quality, to form many concrete conclusions. It has been written with reference to papers that would probably be best read in Chinese, by someone with a better grasp of Chinese history than I, and a couple of days field work. However, it would be interesting to have a series of unbiased people research sections of this work, to draw their own conclusions and to present their agreement or disagreement. I had hoped that the National Geographic/IBM Genographic Project would shed some more conclusive light on the subject of Hakka migration and origins, but as far as I can see it does not. At the end of the article are my private conclusions, made quite subjectively, I hope no one finds offence in them.
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The Roman’s first invaded Britain in 55 & 54BC but they were unsuccessful. It was nearly a hundred years later that the Emperor Claudius, who wanted a conquest to make him look good, invaded again in 43AD. This time the Romans quickly took control and secured the resources they had coveted Britain for; gold, tin, wool & cloth, dogs, pots, food and slaves. They weren’t too bothered about the far north, the area which is now Scotland and realised it would be very expensive to try to conquer that as well. In 122AD, Emperor Hadrian visited and they started building a wall across the country from East to West, roughly from Newcastle to Carlisle.