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日学术演讲「女人可以治国吗？武则天与她的时代」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於香港中文大学主讲题为「女人可以治国吗？武则天与她的时代」的讲座，探讨中国历史上唯一的女皇帝——武则天的权力基础，以及促成其实现女性统治的历史条件。

黄博士以安乐公主向唐中宗请求册立为「皇太女」未果的政治事件为切入点，指出安乐公主虽以武则天为先例，却未能理解武则天权力来源的独特之处。武则天能登上帝位主要基於三项关键因素：其一，作为高宗皇后，以嫡妻身分与高宗「二圣」并尊共治；其二，深植於政治传统的母后摄政制度；其三，藉由佛教「转轮王」与「弥勒下生」观念所带来的宗教权威。

相比之下，安乐公主仅见武则天的外在成功，却忽略了其背後的制度与法理基础。黄博士指出，武则天的立嗣安排被根深柢固的父系宗法制度的限制。虽然她在继嗣方式上突破了部分传统，但仍未从根本上改变宗法秩序，最终仍以李姓亲子优先於武姓宗族，并将皇位传回中宗。

黄博士强调，武则天虽然登上帝位，但其政治思维仍未超越父系架构。中国漫长的历史中再无第二位女皇帝，也突显了宗法制度与礼制在性别角色上的深层限制。