This is the first comprehensive English-language biography of Emperor Huizong corrects the prevailing view of this ruler as a decadent political failure who lost the throne to invaders. Patricia Ebrey recasts the artistically gifted emperor as passionate and paradoxical, yet genuinely ambitious - if too much so - in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm.
- ISBN13 9780674726420
- Publish Date 3 July 2014 (first published 6 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 656
- Language English
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