Teng Hsiang-yang, who is in the process of writing A History of the Development of puli, points out that Puli has been seen as a treasure chest by many scholars of history in Taiwan ever since the Japanese Occupation era. Even today field researchers come here in droves.
目前正撰寫「埔里開發史」的鄧相揚指出，埔里日據時代起即為許多台灣史研究者視為寶庫，至今田野工作者仍絡繹於途。