Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Forfatter af The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of Washington.
Værker af Patricia Buckley Ebrey
The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (1993) 69 eksemplarer
Pre-Modern East Asia to 1800: A Cultural, Social, and Political History (Third Edition) (2005) 40 eksemplarer
Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics (2006) 15 eksemplarer
Chu Hsi's family rituals : a twelfth-century Chinese manual for the performance of cappings, weddings, funerals, and… (2014) 5 eksemplarer
Family and Property in Sung China: Yuan Tsai's Precepts for Social Life (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) (1984) 5 eksemplarer
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- Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
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- 1947-03-07
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- University of Chicago (AB|1968)
Columbia University (MA|1970)
Columbia University (PhD|1975) - Erhverv
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- University of Washington (professor of history)
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Emperor Huizong is a dense book and slow-going. I pondered at several points giving in to the temptation to skim ahead, but dutifully read every page. There are pages and pages of facts surrounding the man's life but only rarely does one get a glimpse into what he may have been like. For example, he had a lot of children-- did he really enjoy the pleasures of his many wives and consorts and palace women or did he feel it was his duty to produce as many descendants as possible, or did he just feel sorry for all those lonely women waiting for their one opportunity to rise in status by fathering an imperial child? Did he raise his inked brush with a heavy or light heart? Did he really collect and collect passionately, or just accumulate? Chinese history never records such personal details, only the meetings, the communications, the transactions, the petitions...yet such (impossible) insights are the very details that would have given breath to the sturdy bones of this solid work.
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