The article has inquired into the transformation and probed for how and why Hakka Confucian gentry could be in a dilemma or had dual forces between conservatism and creationism in late Qing.

• 本文以为对此加以厘清，有助于探讨近代客家儒绅在传承与创变之问，所以进退维谷或两相发挥的根本绿由；