Hsu Cheng-kuang, director of Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, is a Hakka from the town of Neipu, in Pingtung County. He notes that there are many conflicting ideas about where the Hakkas originated, and that this question continues to be a riddle in the academic community.
中研院民族學所所長徐正光，是出身屏東內埔的客家人，他指出，關於「客家」的起源眾說紛紜，至今猶是學術領域中的一個難解之謎。