Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of Washington.
发表于2025-02-02
Emperor Huizong 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
在传统史书甚至教科书里,宋徽宗都被定格为一个只会画画、昏庸无道的失败君王,真的是如此吗?作者将宋徽宗放回到历史里面,从一个国外学者的视角来相对公正地给出了他的判断:宋徽宗不止艺术造诣极高,也一直在努力强盛宋朝,而在过程中得罪了儒家传统,或者说是偏离了儒家道...
评分对于中国的古代帝王,传统的官方话语中单独有着自己独特的一套评价准则,比如皇帝若是每天早起晚归宵衣旰食,勤俭克己,哪怕他只是中人之资,这样我们也会认为他是一位好皇帝了;而对于本书的主人公,却不幸地落入万劫不复之地,后世帝王教育里,他成为了似乎必须提及的反例。 ...
评分史书,虽然不必俪采百字之偶,争价一句之奇;然则,大师不鸣则已,鸣必惊人,其声如万钧之洪钟,断无铮铮之细响。然我读此书,犹如身处绝塞,那种铮铮鏦鏦的钝刀刮竹声和味同嚼蜡的感觉,让人深感生而无趣之绝望。我觉得它可以换一个书名:“《真菌生物宋徽宗生活习性说明书》”...
评分书是好书,之前看方诚峰老师的《北宋晚期的政治体制与政治文化》时,就发现引用了《宋徽宗》的英文版,从引用上来看是本好书,方评价也高。但刚买上来,粗略地看了一下,因为最近看了宋朝祭祀的问题,翻到景灵宫,“真宗发现宋朝的创始人是玉皇大帝/黄帝的后裔,便将这两位尊为...
评分史书,虽然不必俪采百字之偶,争价一句之奇;然则,大师不鸣则已,鸣必惊人,其声如万钧之洪钟,断无铮铮之细响。然我读此书,犹如身处绝塞,那种铮铮鏦鏦的钝刀刮竹声和味同嚼蜡的感觉,让人深感生而无趣之绝望。我觉得它可以换一个书名:“《真菌生物宋徽宗生活习性说明书》”...
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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.
三星書, 一星給敍事風格。以歷史學家來說,文筆算很好了。
评分#要看文笔好找史景迁卜正民这俩写小说的啊(嘲讽脸)
评分立体全面地回顾了徽宗的一生,从浮华到潦倒,让人无限唏嘘。最具可读性的在我看来是每章最后作者的小问题和自问自答,以及最后对全书史料选择的说明。
评分#要看文笔好找史景迁卜正民这俩写小说的啊(嘲讽脸)
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?
Emperor Huizong 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书