Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong
Patricia Buckley Ebrey
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Description for Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong
Hardback. 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. Series: China Program Books. Num Pages: 576 pages, 137 illus., 37 in color. BIC Classification: 1F; ACBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 215 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1876.
Winner of the Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art History
By the end of the sixth century CE, both the royal courts and the educated elite in China were collecting works of art, particularly scrolls of calligraphy and paintings done by known artists. By the time of Emperor Huizong (1082-1135) of the Song dynasty (960-1279), both scholars and the imperial court were cataloguing their collections and also collecting ancient bronzes and rubbings of ancient inscriptions. The catalogues of Huizong's painting, calligraphy, and antiquities collections list over 9,000 items, and the tiny fraction of the listed items ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Series
China Program Books
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295987781
SKU
V9780295987781
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About Patricia Buckley Ebrey
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.
Reviews for Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong
"Ebrey's groundbreaking book . . . considers Huizong's contribution to visual culture of the Northern Song dynasty and beyond. This is a magisterial undertaking. . . . This is a much needed and timely work . . . [and] a major accomplishment in scholarship on the Northern Song dynasty."
Roslyn Lee Hammers
China Review International
"Ebrey's depiction ... Read more
Roslyn Lee Hammers
China Review International
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