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Informationen zum Autor Patricia Ebrey is professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington. Among her publications are Emperor Huizong (Harvard University Press, 2014), Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (University of Washington Press, 2008), The Cambridge History of China (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (University of California Press, 1993). Klappentext Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington and author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Zusammenfassung Features the cultural side of Chinese imperial rule and of the court as a patron of scholars and the arts. This book offers glimpses of the magnificence of the collections Emperor Huizong (1082-1135) formed and the disparate fates of the objects after they were seized as booty by the Jurchen invaders in 1127. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface A Note on Dates, Measurements, and Other Conventions Chronology Introduction 1. Early Song Precedents 2. Strains in Emperor-Literati Relations during the Reform Era 3. Collecting As a Scholarly Passion during the Northern Song Period 4. Huizong As a Collector 5. Managing the Collections at the Palace Library 6. Collecting and Cataloguing Antiquities 7. Collecting and Cataloguing Calligraphy 8. Collecting and Cataloguing Paintings 9. The Fate of Huizong's Collections Reflections Appendix 1: Authorship and Editions of the Catalogues Appendix 2: Paintings and Calligraphies with Huizong's Collector Seals Appendix 3: Major Extant Pre-Song Calligraphies Listed in the Xuanhe Calligraphy Catalogue Notes Bibliography Glossary-Index ...
