Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China

The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics

Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Edited by Maggie Bickford

    Tables, Maps, and Figures

    Abbreviations

    Chronology

    Contributors

    Introduction

    Part I: Court Politics and Policies

    1. Huizong, Cai Jing, and the Politics of Reform
    John Chaffee

    2. Irredentism as Political Capital: The New Policies and the Annexation of Tibetan Domains in Hehuang (the Qinghai-Gansu Highlands) Under Shenzong and His Sons, 1068–1126
    Paul Jakov Smith

    3. Terms of Estrangement: Factional Discourse in the Early Huizong Reign, 1100–1104
    Ari Daniel Levine

    Part II: Imperial Ideology

    4. Emperors Can Claim Antiquity Too--Emperorship and Autocracy Under the New Policies
    Peter K. Bol

    5. Tuning and Numerology in the New Learning School
    Tsuyoshi Kojima

    Part III: Extending the Imperial Presence

    6. Huizong's Stone Inscriptions
    Patricia Ebrey

    7. Huizong's Impact on Medicine and on Public Health
    Asaf Goldschmidt

    8. Huizong and the Divine Empyrean Palace Temple-Network
    Shin-yi Chao

    Part IV: The Emperor and the Arts

    9. Huizong's Palace Poems
    Ronald Egan

    10. Huizong's Dashengyue, a Musical Performance of Emperorship and Officialdom
    Joseph S. C. Lam

    11. Huizong's Paintings: Art and the Art of Emperorship
    Maggie Bickford

    Part V: Who's Telling the Story? Rethinking the Sources

    12. A Textual History of Cai Jing's Biography in the Songshi
    Charles Hartman

    13. Crossing Over: Huizong in the Afterglow, or the Deaths of a Troubling Emperor
    Stephen H. West

    Index

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Patricia Ebrey is Professor of History and Chinese Studies, University of Washington.

Maggie Bickford is Professor and Chair of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.