Starting from what the Hou Hanshu says about the Southern Man in Later Han times, this article aims to measure the prescriptive importance of Fan Ye’s text, through a comparison with other types of documents, mostly unearthed documents from the Middle Yangzi area. Beyond the stereotypical image of benevolent officials educating savage barbarians, it suggests that the “Man problem” was not an ethnic issue, but rather a political and fiscal one. Indeed, most Man rebellions occurred not only because of the gradual imperial colonization of the southern part of the realm, but also because the officials holding office in the Middle Yangzi regularly questioned the Man’s fiscal status.

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作为汉代政治财政问题的南蛮人

本文以《后汉书》对后汉时期南蛮人的论述为出发点，通过与其他类型文献的比较，以中扬子地区出土文献为主，来衡量范爷文本的规范重要性。除了仁慈的官员教育野蛮人的刻板印象之外，它还表明“人的问题”不是种族问题，而是政治和财政问题。事实上，大多数满族叛乱的发生不仅是因为王国南部逐渐被帝国殖民，还因为在长江中游的官员经常质疑满族的财政状况。