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日學術演講「女人可以治國嗎？武則天與她的時代」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於香港中文大學主講題為「女人可以治國嗎？武則天與她的時代」的講座，探討中國歷史上唯一的女皇帝——武則天的權力基礎，以及促成其實現女性統治的歷史條件。

黃博士以安樂公主向唐中宗請求冊立為「皇太女」未果的政治事件為切入點，指出安樂公主雖以武則天為先例，卻未能理解武則天權力來源的獨特之處。武則天能登上帝位主要基於三項關鍵因素：其一，作為高宗皇后，以嫡妻身分與高宗「二聖」並尊共治；其二，深植於政治傳統的母后攝政制度；其三，藉由佛教「轉輪王」與「彌勒下生」觀念所帶來的宗教權威。

相比之下，安樂公主僅見武則天的外在成功，卻忽略了其背後的制度與法理基礎。黃博士指出，武則天的立嗣安排被根深柢固的父系宗法制度的限制。雖然她在繼嗣方式上突破了部分傳統，但仍未從根本上改變宗法秩序，最終仍以李姓親子優先於武姓宗族，並將皇位傳回中宗。

黃博士強調，武則天雖然登上帝位，但其政治思維仍未超越父系架構。中國漫長的歷史中再無第二位女皇帝，也突顯了宗法制度與禮制在性別角色上的深層限制。