Ep. 132 | The Song Emperor Huizong (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We're going to begin a new series that will look at political, social, and cultural life in the late Northern Song. The second the last emperor Huizong will serve as our vehicle to examine this period in the late 11th and early 12th century China. University of Washington professor Dr. Patricia Buckley Ebrey has recently published a book entitled Emperor Huizong. I'm going to use this as one of the main sources.

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0:55.0	Hey everyone, Las La Montgomery here again,
0:57.0	episode 132 of the China History Podcast.
1:01.0	Today we're going to begin a series of episodes that takes a
1:05.5	more close-up look at some of the nitty gritty of what went on in the
1:08.9	Imperial Court and about the Daily life of an emperor.
1:14.0	By zooming in real close and examining the northern Song-Wezon emperor,
1:20.0	we can use his life as our vehicle to try and get a better understanding of what a Chinese emperor actually did.
1:26.0	Through Huizong, this will also be a chance for us to take a long hard look at the Northern Song Dynasty and review some
1:36.3	info in more detail from past episodes. We'll touch on episodes CHP 28 on the Northern Song as well as CHP 71 on Oyang Shio. As a casual student of Chinese history, there was something about the Huizong Emperor that always intrigued me.
1:57.0	To have been born so high and to have lived the privileged life that he did for so long.
2:04.0	It meant to fall, so low and endure a most degrading and uncomfortable fate,
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