“客商”的教育情结探析

A Probe into the Hakka Merchants′ Passion for Education

"客商"是一个跨地域跨国界的客籍实业家群体。"客商"传承儒家崇文重教的优秀文化传统,有很深的教育情结。从上个世纪初到现在,一批"客商"领袖不仅对东南亚的华文教育奠基和推动而且对客家地区的教育发展,乃至新中国的教育事业,都做出极大的贡献。"客商"为"文化之乡"地位的确立和客家人文精神的发扬光大起到巨大而深远的作用。

Hakka Merchants are a cross-boarder and cross-district community of entreprisers of the same origin.They have a glorious tradition of "advocating literacy and education".Since the beginning of last century,a group of Hakka merchants have made great contributions to the development of education in both southeastern Asia and different Hakka areas in the world,thus pushing the development of education in China after the founding of the new Republic.Hakka merchants have exerted positive and tremendous effect on...