Cross-border hypergamy? Marriage exchanges in a transnational Hakka community

Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 17-33

  Oxfeld, Ellen ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

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1. The Hakka are a linguistic and cultural group among the Han Chinese, who are found in greatest numbers in southeastern China, especially in Guangdong Province. The term "Hakka" is actually Cantonese for "guest" (kejia in Mandarin), and it refers to the notion that the Hakka are thought to have migrated to Guangdong Province and other areas of southeastern China from the north. While the Hakka may have been historically viewed as "guest people" by the predominantly Cantonese population of Guangdong Province, they constitute the vast majority of residents in Mei Xian.