Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of Washington.
China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. The first comprehensive English-language biography of this important monarch, Emperor Huizong is a nuanced portrait that corrects the prevailing view of Huizong as decadent and negligent. Patricia Ebrey recasts him as a ruler genuinely ambitious—if too much so—in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm.
After a rocky start trying to overcome political animosities at court, Huizong turned his attention to the good he could do. He greatly expanded the court’s charitable ventures, founding schools, hospitals, orphanages, and paupers’ cemeteries. An accomplished artist, he surrounded himself with outstanding poets, painters, and musicians and built palaces, temples, and gardens of unsurpassed splendor. What is often overlooked, Ebrey points out, is the importance of religious Daoism in Huizong’s understanding of his role. He treated Daoist spiritual masters with great deference, wrote scriptural commentaries, and urged his subjects to adopt his beliefs and practices. This devotion to the Daoist vision of sacred kingship eventually alienated the Confucian mainstream and compromised his ability to govern.
Readers will welcome this lively biography, which adds new dimensions to our understanding of a passionate and paradoxical ruler who, so many centuries later, continues to inspire both admiration and disapproval.
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评分宋徽宗需要彻底地重新被评估,正如Ebrey所说,他是一个天才政治家。小岛毅也有研究认为作为新法党的蔡京的政治行为应该被重新评估。
评分看完非常难过。当一个连皇宫都不能出的皇帝,只能醉心于自己的一些爱好和执念,这些爱好确实花钱,但他也并不是不理朝政。他不是个完美的皇帝,又碰上了倒霉的时候。但我们都不是完美的人类,又何必苛责于他?
评分宋徽宗需要彻底地重新被评估,正如Ebrey所说,他是一个天才政治家。小岛毅也有研究认为作为新法党的蔡京的政治行为应该被重新评估。
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