Even in Hsinchu County, where 80 % of the population is Hakka, it is tough to find much mention of Hakkas in a county gazetteer published in 1976, fully 31 years after Taiwan was recovered from the Japanese.
甚至在客家人仍佔百分之八十的新竹縣，光復後刊印的《新竹縣志》，似乎也找不到幾則和客家人相關的記錄。