讲者简要

Huang Chih-Yen Debby obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania after receiving her BA and MA degrees at National Taiwan University. She is currently a NSTC Research Scholar at Academia Sinica, where she serves as principal investigator of a research project funded by the National Science and Technology Council, titled Empire of Pleasure: The Art of Governing and Being Governed in Eighth-Century China. Her research lies at the intersection of institutional, cultural, and gender history in medieval China, with a focus on gender relations, public performance of emotion, and the ways institutions both enable and constrain action while also generating political and social capital. She is the author of Princess Politics: A Gendered Investigation into the Political History of Early Medieval China (2013, in Chinese; simplified Chinese edition forthcoming) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her recent article on the transcultural reception of a Buddhist tale, accepted by the Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology (2026, in Chinese). She is currently completing More Than Friends: Gender, Space, and the Making of Intimacy in Medieval China, 3rd–7th Centuries, a monograph that reconstructs how elites negotiated intimacy, trust, and social distance at the moment of first encounter with their friends’ relatives, revealing an underlying emotional order that shaped early medieval sociability.

2026年2月27日学术讲座「与民同乐：唐玄宗与八世纪中国宴乐的政治认识论」片段重温

2026年2月27日，中央研究院历史语言研究所黄旨彦博士主讲题为「与民同乐：唐玄宗与八世纪中国宴乐的政治认识论」的讲座。讲者将「乐」置於政治正当性与统治技艺的框架中，重新解读唐玄宗提倡官方宴饮游赏之举。

黄博士首先勾勒出玄宗极具艺术才华且与将领关系密切的形象。在其治下，唐朝迎来了开元盛世，然而後世史学常将其奢靡无度的作风视为唐朝衰落的根源。但讲者并不认同此观点。她认为玄宗实际上将「宴乐」作为统治工具，藉此巩固皇权、构筑君臣间的忠诚关系，并具体展现「太平」盛世的繁荣景象。

讲座讲述了玄宗朝一系列连贯的政策，鼓励官员在春季或政务清闲时设宴游赏。其背後的思想支撑包括顺应节气、道家无为以及政治清俭等多重理念，将「享乐」视为治世的象徵，而非传统天人观念下的道德堕落。以开元十八年兴庆宫御宴为例，玄宗亲自登花萼楼，观看近臣饮酒作乐及仪式性地舞蹈。这些举动突显君臣之间共有的政治和谐，并显示臣下的忠诚。

黄博士总结指出，玄宗重新诠释了「宴乐」的话语，将其从道德险境转化为有效的统治手段。安史之乱後，这些举措被纳入政治知识体系，标志着中古政治文化从压抑欲望转向策略性运用集体享乐，以凝聚政治共同体、彰显君主权威及确立王朝正统。