我在台湾大学做访问学者期间,清华大学(新竹)的春兴兄很是热情,给我引荐了不少台湾经济学界的朋友。记得在与台中逢甲大学的教授们一起吃午饭时,我问了一个问题:“哪里可以看到土牛?”“土牛?是指台湾本地的牛吗?”在座的人几乎都不知道。看来我的问题太过冷僻了。一“土牛”一词,是我从一本叫作《清代台湾的地域社会——竹堑地区的历史地理研究》(施添福,新竹县文化局,二○○一)的书中看到的。它是指一道边界,隔开汉族移民与原住民。其功用,是要减少汉人对原住民土地的挤 During my visit to Taiwan University as a visiting scholar, Chun Hsun-t’ao of Tsinghua University (Hsinchu) was very enthusiastic and introduced a lot of friends in Taiwan’s economics field to me. I remember when I was having lunch with professors at Feng Chia University in Taichung, I asked the following question: Where can I see the beef cattle? The beef cattle in Taiwan refer to the native cattle in Taiwan. do not know. It seems my question is too out of date. The term “native bull” refers to a book that I read from the book entitled “Historical Geography of the Regional Society in the Qing Dynasty in Taiwan - A Bamboo Cut Region” (Shi Tianfu, Hsinchu County Bureau of Culture, 2001) To It refers to a border, separated by Han immigrants and indigenous peoples. Its function is to reduce the Han Chinese crowded on the aboriginal land