Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington and author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
A Note on Dates, Measurements, and Other Conventions
Chronology
Introduction
1. Early Song Precedents
2. Strains in Emperor-Literati Relations during the Reform Era
3. Collecting As a Scholarly Passion during the Northern Song Period
4. Huizong As a Collector
5. Managing the Collections at the Palace Library
6. Collecting and Cataloguing Antiquities
7. Collecting and Cataloguing Calligraphy
8. Collecting and Cataloguing Paintings
9. The Fate of Huizong's Collections
Reflections
Appendix 1: Authorship and Editions of the Catalogues
Appendix 2: Paintings and Calligraphies with Huizong's Collector Seals
Appendix 3: Major Extant Pre-Song Calligraphies Listed in the Xuanhe Calligraphy Catalogue
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary-Index

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington and author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period.