We should also not overlook the involvement of some Mountain Aborigines from nearby He-piao-hu (in today's San-min Township, Kaohsiung County) and Liu-kuei-li (Lakuli; today's Liu-kuei Township, Kaohsiung County), who either fought alongside the rebels or attempted to launch their own uprisings in response to the Ta-pa-ni Incident (see chapters 5 and 6).

a tooth-and-nail fight

The doctrine of fiscalism, in essence, implies that money doesn not matter so much as the monetarists make it out. The fiscalists hold that monetary policy is important, but its potency is weakened by the institutional forces. To them, fiscal policy is, by and large, a more effective and powerful economic stabilisation device.

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