Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers

N. Harry Rothschild is associate professor of Asian history at the University of North Florida. He specializes in Tang history and the study of women and gender in China and East Asia. He is also the author of Wu Zhao, China's Only Female Emperor.

出版者:Columbia University Press

作者:N. Henry Rothschild

页数:384

出版时间:2015-6-16

价格:USD 40.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780231169387

图书标签:隋唐史武则天海外中国研究中国古代史中古史隋唐五代史唐历史学

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Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she rise to power, and why was she never overthrown? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted history suggests that Wu Zhao drew on China's rich pantheon of female divinities and eminent women to aid in her reign.

Wu Zhao could not obtain political authority through conventional channels, but she could afford to ignore norms and tradition. Deploying language, symbol, and ideology, she harnessed the cultural resonance, maternal force, divine energy, and historical weight of Buddhist devis, Confucian exemplars, Daoist immortals, and mythic goddesses, establishing legitimacy within and beyond the confines of Confucian ideology. Tapping into deep, powerful subterranean reservoirs of female power, Wu Zhao built a pantheon of female divinities carefully calibrated to meet her needs at court. Her pageant was promoted in scripted rhetoric, reinforced through poetry, celebrated in theatrical productions, and inscribed on steles. Rendered with deft political acumen and aesthetic flair, these affiliations significantly enhanced Wu Zhao's authority and cast her as the human vessel through which the pantheon's divine energy flowed. Her strategy is a model of political brilliance and proof that medieval Chinese women enjoyed a more complex social status than previously known.

用户评价

If I am writing the book, I would add more tension in her transformation of patronage from Daoism to Buddhism, and shorten the first two chapters.

If I am writing the book, I would add more tension in her transformation of patronage from Daoism to Buddhism, and shorten the first two chapters.

是不是太规整了？

作者的bias就是把武瞾定义成一个有确定目标要建立自己的pantheon的人。 在分析武瞾树立女性神的同时，作者也并没有提到作为接收方的臣子和民众的反应。

是不是太规整了？