Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong

by Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Winner of the Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art History

By the end of the sixth century CE, both the royal courts and the educated elite in China were collecting works of art, particularly scrolls of calligraphy and paintings done by known artists. By the time of Emperor Huizong (1082-1135) of the Song dynasty (960-1279), both scholars and the imperial court were cataloguing their collections and also collecting ancient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295987782
• ISBN13: 9780295987781
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.4" x 10.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher