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Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
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Song Huizong, Emperor of China, 1082-1135.
China -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
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Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
Song Huizong, Emperor of China, 1082-1135.
China -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
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Emperor Huizong / Patricia Buckley Ebrey.
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Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
Harvard University Press, 2014.
Call #:
951.024 S698e
Subjects
Song Huizong, Emperor of China, 1082-1135.
China -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
ISBN:
9780674725256 (hc.)
Description:
661 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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. This biography 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"--Provided by publisher.
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