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.
皇帝也是人,可是身在那样的高位,他被要求只能努力具备圣贤要求的明君品质,而不许有作为人的性情与欲望,所以徽宗对文艺的热爱,与性情相投者的交往,对道教的沉迷都成了他亡国的罪证。如果不是皇帝,他会成为一个成就卓著的艺术家,被后人赞赏,而不是被一再作为反面教材来...
评分买《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...
评分赵宋王朝的诸位皇帝当中,宋徽宗是个独特的存在。尽管对时人而言,位居权力顶峰的他,高不可攀,但后世记住的,要么是他无能君主的形象——被金人掳走,沦为阶下囚——赵宋王朝威风不再,要么是作为非凡艺术家的他,不但以瘦金体在书法史上占据一席之地,而且还以高超的画技闻...
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...
评分选择读这本书,因为喜欢瘦金体和《听琴图》。在读之前,对宋徽宗的印象主要有两方面:一是受小说《水浒传》和岳飞《满江红》一词的影响,这个皇帝贪图个人享乐搜刮民脂民膏,使得众多英雄豪杰被逼上梁山早反,后来被金人抓去做牛做马,导致靖康之耻北宋灭亡;二是宋徽宗的艺术...
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?
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评分三星書, 一星給敍事風格。以歷史學家來說,文筆算很好了。
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评分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。
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