講者簡要

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日學術講座「與民同樂：唐玄宗與八世紀中國宴樂的政治認識論」片段重溫

2026年2月27日，中央研究院歷史語言研究所黃旨彥博士主講題為「與民同樂：唐玄宗與八世紀中國宴樂的政治認識論」的講座。講者將「樂」置於政治正當性與統治技藝的框架中，重新解讀唐玄宗提倡官方宴飲遊賞之舉。

黃博士首先勾勒出玄宗極具藝術才華且與將領關係密切的形象。在其治下，唐朝迎來了開元盛世，然而後世史學常將其奢靡無度的作風視為唐朝衰落的根源。但講者並不認同此觀點。她認為玄宗實際上將「宴樂」作為統治工具，藉此鞏固皇權、構築君臣間的忠誠關係，並具體展現「太平」盛世的繁榮景象。

講座講述了玄宗朝一系列連貫的政策，鼓勵官員在春季或政務清閒時設宴遊賞。其背後的思想支撐包括順應節氣、道家無為以及政治清儉等多重理念，將「享樂」視為治世的象徵，而非傳統天人觀念下的道德墮落。以開元十八年興慶宮御宴為例，玄宗親自登花萼樓，觀看近臣飲酒作樂及儀式性地舞蹈。這些舉動突顯君臣之間共有的政治和諧，並顯示臣下的忠誠。

黃博士總結指出，玄宗重新詮釋了「宴樂」的話語，將其從道德險境轉化為有效的統治手段。安史之亂後，這些舉措被納入政治知識體系，標誌著中古政治文化從壓抑欲望轉向策略性運用集體享樂，以凝聚政治共同體、彰顯君主權威及確立王朝正統。