Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China - The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics : The Politics of Culture And the Culture of Politics

Tables, Maps, and Figures xi Abbreviations xiv Chronology xv Contributors xvii Introduction 1(30) Patricia Buckley Ebrey Part I Court Politics and Policies Huizong, Cai Jing, and the Politics of Reform 31(47) John Chaffee 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 78(53) Paul Jakov Smith Terms of Estrangement: Factional Discourse in the Early Huizong Reign, 1100--1104 131(42) Ari Daniel Levine Part II Imperial Ideology Emperors Can Claim Antiquity Too: Emperorship and Autocracy Under the New Policies 173(33) Peter K. Bol Tuning and Numerology in the New Learning School 206(23) Tsuyoshi Kojima Part III Extending the Imperial Presence Huizong's Stone Inscriptions 229(46) Patricia Ebrey Huizong's Impact on Medicine and on Public Health 275(49) Asaf Goldschmidt Huizong and the Divine Empyrean Palace Temple Network 324(37) Shin-yi Chao Part IV The Emperor and the Arts Huizong's Palace Poems 361(34) Ronald Egan Huizong's Dashengyue, a Musical Performance of Emperorship and Officialdom 395(58) Joseph S. C. Lam Huizong's Paintings: Art and the Art of Emperorship 453(64) Maggie Bickford Part V Who's Telling the Story? Rethinking the Sources A Textual History of Cai Jing's Biography in the Songshi 517(48) Charles Hartman Crossing Over: Huizong in the Afterglow, or the Deaths of a Troubling Emperor 565(46) Stephen H. West Index 611