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).