Emperor Huizong

by Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Book Overview

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. Ebrey recasts the artistically gifted emperor as passionate and paradoxical, yet genuinely ambitious--if too much so--in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674725255
• ISBN13: 9780674725256
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 707 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"