Ebrey's groundbreaking book. considers Huizong's contribution to visual culture of the Northern Song dynasty and beyond. The collections of the late Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125) were unprecedented in scale and comprehensiveness

Ebrey's groundbreaking book. This is a magisterial undertaking. "The collections of the late Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125) were unprecedented in scale and comprehensiveness. ―Journal of Asian Studies.

Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (A China Program Book)

Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (A China Program Book). Patricia Buckley Ebrey. showcases the great achievements Huizong made in culture and art: he worked toward administrative and educational reform; he produced poetry, hymns, and paintings that centered on Daoist themes; and he was ‘an avid builder of temples and gardens.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey (born March 7, 1947) is an American historian specializing in cultural and gender issues during the Chinese .

Patricia Buckley Ebrey (born March 7, 1947) is an American historian specializing in cultural and gender issues during the Chinese Song Dynasty. Ebrey obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1968 and her Masters and PhD from Columbia University in 1970 and 1975, respectively. Upon receiving her PhD, Ebrey was hired as visiting assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Selected bibliography.

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In Accumulating Culture, Patricia Buckley Ebrey shows that Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125) of the Northern Song . 1100-1125) of the Northern Song (960-1126) dynasty, not only accepted such a claim, he went to astonishing lengths to recruit all cultural objects-books, bronzes, calligraphy, and antiquities, along with painting-in his enormous imperial collections to demonstrate the complete perfection of his reign. Ebrey argues that Huizong amassed his enormous collection of objects as a means to forge social relationships and to announce his cultural authority and political leadership.

Accumulating Culture : The Collections of Emperor Huizong. China Program Books (Hardcover). By (author) Patricia Buckley Ebrey.

The Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1125) amassed unparalleled collections of paintings, calligraphies and ancient bronzes. University of Washington professor Patricia Buckley Ebrey places this accomplishment in historical and cultural context and shows how court intervention in the art market was both influenced by and had an impact on the production, circulation and conception of art outside the court. Bringing together some of the most compelling thinkers on a given cultural subject, Pivotal Perspectives is a timely and innovative forum that addresses pressing issues in art and society.

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The Journal of Asian Studies. Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. By Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.

Accumulating Culture provides a rich context for interpreting the three book-length catalogues of Huizong's collection and specific objects that have survived. It contributes to a rethinking of the cultural side of Chinese imperial rule and of the court as a patron of scholars and the arts, neither glorifying Huizong as a man of the arts nor castigating him as a megalomaniac but rather taking a hardheaded look at the political and cultural ramifications of collecting and the reasons for choices made by Huizong and. his curators.