Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China

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Abbreviations

Chronology

Contributors

Intro...

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