Chung Chao-cheng
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Chung Chao-cheng (born 1925-), sixth-generation Hakka
writer, born and raised in Taiwan
. A proponent and promoter of Taiwanese hsiang-tu literature (鄉土文學). "We are pioneers of Taiwanese literature, a literature with unique characteristics," he once said. "The use of native dialects should be a part of expressing those unique characteristics, though it will take our determined effort."
Hakka people
The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....
writer, born and raised in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. A proponent and promoter of Taiwanese hsiang-tu literature (鄉土文學). "We are pioneers of Taiwanese literature, a literature with unique characteristics," he once said. "The use of native dialects should be a part of expressing those unique characteristics, though it will take our determined effort."