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Before Japanese occupied the island , aboriginal people had been able to freely trade with the outside world for years . During the Early Japanese Colonial Period to the Postwar Period , the government authority began to intervene in mountain trading operations with systems, which developed entirely different patterns among the mountain and the plain areas. In the periods, the systems intervene the mountain trading has sequentially appeared three critical cores: "appeasement, monitoring and autonomy”. At the beginning of the Japanese Colonial Period, the government tried to pacify and please the aboriginal by offering liquor, food , cloth and other materials. However , the government had not come out a unified means to control over mountain trading; therefore, different patterns of free trade, private franchise, official business developed. After 1900, the mountain trading policies had changed from "appeasement" to "monitoring."With the policy of defense in the south and advance to the North , the Western and Southern Regional Offices monitored the private mountain trading by laws and regulations, on the other hand , the North and the East Regional Offices adopted government-run trading and the police officers were authorized to directly controlled salt and iron supplies . In 1914, the Five-year policy of Aboriginal Policy had ended. The trading places which were run by the police controls, began to implement the security controlling and culture renovations to the mountain regions . In 1921, when the Taiwanese Police Association had taken over the mountain trading controls, the sale of mountain products brought huge sums of money, which had once become the police pension fund .During the war-time period, Hsinchu , Taichung, Kaohsiung successively set up Takasago Association, Japanese aggravatingly exploited the money resources of the mountains tribes .The Takasago association's employment of aboriginal elites and the establishment of the Takasago self-help groups and youth clubs had enabled aboriginal elites to gain experiences with official cooperation in the management of Mountain products trading and opened the door to the post-war "autonomy" in mountain trading. In the early Postwar Period, aboriginal elites tried to reach the goal of acquiring the "autonomy" in mountainous trading .The aborigines such as Nan Zhi-Xin , Lin Rui-Chang and Gao Yi-Sheng aggregated the capital to establish the Minsheng Company. However, under the influence of Chinese Civil War, the government did not give out the autonomy of mountain trading to the aborigines, the government frustrated the self-governing dreams. In 1952 ,when the Supply & Marketing Market was established ,under the framework of "mountain township self-running and government supervision" developed different powers and responsibilities .The Supply & Marketing Market met such problems as insufficient funds, deficient talents and poor business practices. Despite the problems that the market had confronted, the government did not directly address the issue. In 1960, the Supply & Marketing Market were reorganized into Farmer’s associations on the "the indigenous people in the mountains live like other nationals in the plains" policy .So far only five mountain rural Farmer’s associations will remain independent. Mountain townships which lost the protection and assistance of mountain Farmer’s associations could only become self-reliant and self-reliance. The mountain trading system structure above , mainly existed in Taoyuan revival Atayal. In the middle of the latter part of the Japanese Colonial Period , under the supervision of the government, Kabanshan Trading Places became the model of trading place which shows the results of dominion. In fact, aboriginal people had no room for trading at the time .Under the Postwar Period monitoring of government authority and under-functions, Whether the Supply & Marketing Market nor the Privately run bamboo industry, which were both built by the tribes, were difficult to cumulative capital by buying and selling. Before 1965,Atayal people living in Fu-hsing District could only quietly accumulate energy into capitalist society and wait for future development.
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