Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics (Harvard East Asian Monographs) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674021274 ISBN 13: 9780674021273

Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006

Synopsis

Huizong was an exceptional emperor who lived through momentous times. A man of many talents, he wrote poetry and created his own distinctive calligraphy style; collected paintings, calligraphies, and antiquities on a large scale; promoted Daoism; and involved himself in the training of court artists, the layout of gardens, and reforms of music and medicine. The quarter century when Huizong ruled is just as fascinating. The greatly enlarged scholar-official class had come into its own but was deeply divided by factional strife. The long struggle between the Chinese state and its northern neighbors entered a new phase when Song proved unable to defend itself against the newly emergent Jurchen state of Jin. Huizong and thousands of members of his family and court were taken captive, and the Song dynasty had to recreate itself in the South.

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About the Authors

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of Washington.

Maggie Bickford is Professor and Chair of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.

Peter K. Bol is Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

John W. Chaffee is Distinguished Service Professor of History and Asian & Asian American Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Ronald Egan is the Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor of Sinology at Stanford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674021274
• ISBN 13: 9780674021273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 625
• Editor: Ebrey Patricia Buckley, Bickford Maggie