Ep. 134 | The Song Emperor Huizong (Part 3)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We continue in this episode examining the second decade of Huizong's reign. The good times lasted about twenty years but all good things can't go on forever. By 1120 Huizong is going to begin to see the handwriting on the wall. The years we look at today will the years Huizong later on most regrets.

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1:03.4	Huesong Part 3 today.
1:05.8	As the primary source for this episode, I'm still using University of Washington Professor
1:11.3	Patricia Buckley, Ebree's recent biography of Emperor of on my home page. The first two episodes we watched Huizong grow up within the system, enjoying a nice, perfect life. Then in the year 1100, his brother the Judzung Emperor dies suddenly
1:36.2	an affliction that befell monarchs of all kinds and Huizong against his will
1:42.0	became the new emperor.
1:44.5	And we saw how as a patron of literature and the arts
1:49.2	and a builder of temples and monuments and the ultimate decider of what was tasteful and what wasn't.
1:55.6	He perhaps knew no peer in all of the Chinese imperial history.
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