Nation’s first photography book in Hailu dialect chronicles the history of JhudongBy Liao Hsu-ju and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerLee Tseng-chang (李增昌), a 95-year-old photographer and chronicler of the history of Hsinchu County’s Jhudong Township (竹東), is soon to publish the country’s first photography book in the Hailu (海陸) dialect of the Hakka language. The book titled Child Laborer, Hsinchu Glass Co., Jhudong, and Lee Tseng-chang (少年工．新玻．竹東．李增昌), consists of 400 images taken by Lee, as well as essays on the history of the township’s Hakka community, Lee’s coauthor, Ku Shao-chi (古少騏), said on Friday. The book received funding under the Ministry of Culture’s program to promote books written in local languages spoken in Taiwan that are not Mandarin. Hakka photographer Lee Tseng-chang, left, and writer Ku Shao-chi stand together in Hsinchu County on Friday holding copies of a book they coauthored. To ensure the accuracy of the text, Ku cross-referenced Lee’s photographs and verbal accounts with historical documents and interviews with living witnesses, she said.

Source: Taipei Times November 27, 2021 21:59 UTC