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.
發表於2024-11-21
Emperor Huizong 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
感覺像一本枯燥的颱賬,隻有最後幾章寫到靖康之恥的地方還好看一點,翻譯文筆也不好。看到有人把這本書和萬曆十五年相比,真是太抬舉瞭。 一個在藝術、宗教、禮樂方麵點滿瞭技能點的皇帝,政治、軍事昏庸無能,一生起起落落落落落落,他的人生確實非常戲劇化。亡國其實也是積重...
評分史書,雖然不必儷采百字之偶,爭價一句之奇;然則,大師不鳴則已,鳴必驚人,其聲如萬鈞之洪鍾,斷無錚錚之細響。然我讀此書,猶如身處絕塞,那種錚錚鏦鏦的鈍刀颳竹聲和味同嚼蠟的感覺,讓人深感生而無趣之絕望。我覺得它可以換一個書名:“《真菌生物宋徽宗生活習性說明書》”...
評分書是好書,之前看方誠峰老師的《北宋晚期的政治體製與政治文化》時,就發現引用瞭《宋徽宗》的英文版,從引用上來看是本好書,方評價也高。但剛買上來,粗略地看瞭一下,因為最近看瞭宋朝祭祀的問題,翻到景靈宮,“真宗發現宋朝的創始人是玉皇大帝/黃帝的後裔,便將這兩位尊為...
評分【案】作者方誠峰,現為清華大學人文學院副教授,全文刊於《漢學研究》32捲4期,2014年12月。 《宋徽宗》一書除瞭前言、餘語、附錄,共有四編17章。在前言中,作者陳述瞭本書的立意:宋徽宗在傳統中國的歷史敘述中是個反麵教材,但作者希望立足於當時的史料,“以徽宗自己的眼...
評分徐瑾 宋代是一個矛盾的時代。 前人感嘆讀宋史常流淚。明代王夫之曾經批判“陋宋”,國史大傢錢穆更是錶示漢唐宋明清中,宋是“最貧最弱”的一環,“從政治製度上看來,也是最沒有建樹的一環”。與此同時,宋代在華夏曆史中,卻又同時是斯文的代錶。我們知道,宋代文化經濟方麵...
圖書標籤: 宋史 曆史 宋徽宗 海外中國研究 英文版 宋史研究 中國 宋
脫離瞭低級趣味和隨意幻想的冷靜文筆。
評分這位太太我喜歡的!
評分伊佩霞給宋徽宗全麵翻案的著作。試圖全麵擺脫曆史的後見之明,把宋徽宗當成一個人,一個局限於當時的環境和觀念的人,並把很多當時的偶然性都考慮進去。伊佩霞是很成功的史學傢,運用材料極多,思路清晰準確;不過行文就不如專業的藝術史學者來得富於文采,讀得特彆纍。大概就像啃窩窩頭的感覺,管飽,就是沒什麼滋味。
評分人的命運不僅靠自己奮鬥,也要考慮曆史的進程。章惇讓朝廷另請高明,也不是謙虛,我一個文藝青年怎麼當皇帝瞭?但是嚮皇後已經決定瞭,我就當皇帝瞭。做瞭三件事,一是建萬歲山,二是海上之盟搞掉遼國,三是金國齣爾反爾打進來時趕緊讓位。如果還有什麼就是創造瞭瘦金體。還有文化産品也是很重要的。—文筆平實充滿同理心,力圖將徽宗還原成個性豐滿但不得不接受中國傳統製度下皇帝職責的個體,正視其任用蔡京部分延續新法、增強國傢能力和稅收,贊揚其文化建設(推崇道傢、鼓勵書畫、儒傢典籍整理、科舉考試改進、發展藥石等)貢獻,也正視其好大喜功過分自信等缺陷。總體可謂不能自己:個性豐富但必須符閤明君教條傳統規製,皇權逐步高度集中之際又要毫無先例地與科舉形成的新官僚階層博弈平衡,個性柔軟輕信卻遇上內政精英衝突與外部軍事危難。
評分人的命運不僅靠自己奮鬥,也要考慮曆史的進程。章惇讓朝廷另請高明,也不是謙虛,我一個文藝青年怎麼當皇帝瞭?但是嚮皇後已經決定瞭,我就當皇帝瞭。做瞭三件事,一是建萬歲山,二是海上之盟搞掉遼國,三是金國齣爾反爾打進來時趕緊讓位。如果還有什麼就是創造瞭瘦金體。還有文化産品也是很重要的。—文筆平實充滿同理心,力圖將徽宗還原成個性豐滿但不得不接受中國傳統製度下皇帝職責的個體,正視其任用蔡京部分延續新法、增強國傢能力和稅收,贊揚其文化建設(推崇道傢、鼓勵書畫、儒傢典籍整理、科舉考試改進、發展藥石等)貢獻,也正視其好大喜功過分自信等缺陷。總體可謂不能自己:個性豐富但必須符閤明君教條傳統規製,皇權逐步高度集中之際又要毫無先例地與科舉形成的新官僚階層博弈平衡,個性柔軟輕信卻遇上內政精英衝突與外部軍事危難。
Emperor Huizong 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載