Drawing on the postscript by Cai Jing on the scroll of A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains as direct evidence,and the activities of Cai Jing and Emperor Huizong as indirect evidence,supplemented by the physical mate...
The sources of porcelains in the Song Dynasty court were diverse.As porcelains began to play an ever-significant role for monarchs and officials,the capital established kilns for porcelain production in the late-North...
Song China was a period in which China experienced a great increase in its population.Concurrently,the Song dynasty also experienced a rise in the frequency of epidemics and two major wars with the Western Xia and Lia...
Despite the splendor and historical significance of Huizong's reign (r. 1100-26) in Song history, little research has been done on this period in recent years. Chinese scholarship provides several interesting biogr...