Emperor Huizong

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

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Patricia Buckley Ebrey

页数:696

出版时间:2014-1-6

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674725256

图书标签:宋史历史宋徽宗海外中国研究英文版宋史研究中国宋

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.

读后感

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...  

如果对宋徽宗其人一无所知，读过本书前三部分后，会让人觉得宋徽宗是一位成功的皇帝，内政治理方面，国家经济繁荣，社会福利优渥，公共教育体系完善；文化礼仪的传播方面，制定标准化的礼仪流程，弘扬道教，建立全国宫观、祭祀体系；个人修养方面，精通诗书画，对医学有极大兴...  

买《宋徽宗》这本书完全是因为听了樊登对这本书的推荐。作者伊沛霞，一个老外能克服语言难关，研究宋朝时的人和事本身就很了不起了。书后附上近100页的注释，以及丰富的中英文参考文献，可见作者史料掌握有多扎实。 这本书的写作结构更像一份论文，每一章节下用最少的字做小标...  

用户评价

声明一下这本来就不是小说，而是更接近学术期刊之作。Ebrey教授很严谨地描述了宋徽宗的一生，有理有据，不是戏说或者哗众取宠。正因为是严谨的学术作品，可能会少一些趣味性。是很好地让中国人了解外国这一批严谨治学的学者对于宋朝和宋徽宗的镜子。

脱离了低级趣味和随意幻想的冷静文笔。

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。

#要看文笔好找史景迁卜正民这俩写小说的啊（嘲讽脸）

人的命运不仅靠自己奋斗，也要考虑历史的进程。章惇让朝廷另请高明，也不是谦虚，我一个文艺青年怎么当皇帝了？但是向皇后已经决定了，我就当皇帝了。做了三件事，一是建万岁山，二是海上之盟搞掉辽国，三是金国出尔反尔打进来时赶紧让位。如果还有什么就是创造了瘦金体。还有文化产品也是很重要的。—文笔平实充满同理心，力图将徽宗还原成个性丰满但不得不接受中国传统制度下皇帝职责的个体，正视其任用蔡京部分延续新法、增强国家能力和税收，赞扬其文化建设（推崇道家、鼓励书画、儒家典籍整理、科举考试改进、发展药石等）贡献，也正视其好大喜功过分自信等缺陷。总体可谓不能自己：个性丰富但必须符合明君教条传统规制，皇权逐步高度集中之际又要毫无先例地与科举形成的新官僚阶层博弈平衡，个性柔软轻信却遇上内政精英冲突与外部军事危难。