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這本改寫自博士論文的論著，在經過用心地大幅修改之後，不僅論證更為詳密，讀來也更容易掌握北宋前期的政治過程。全書的重點在指出，宋仁宗時代再興的古文運動，不僅是一項文學運動，也是一項針對從宋真宗大中祥符以後，到仁宗初期劉太后掌政期間，即本書所稱「天書時代」盛行的讖緯與道教化經學的經典重新解釋運動，且有其現實上的政治關懷。本書以文化資源如何運用於政治的考察，對北宋前期政治史的演進過程提供了一個新的觀察角度；而文中所涉及的個別問題，也注意到不少過去學者所未注意的歷史現象。此一新觀察角度，足以和學界原有的觀點並存，共同豐富我們對北宋前期歷史的認識。
── 梁庚堯（臺大歷史系名譽教授）
Based on a brilliant, critical reading of the primary sources, Chang Wei-ling presents a new and powerfully persuasive re-interpretation of the first 100 years of Song political and intellectual history. Meticulously researched, this work integrates the history of a distinctive “Great Peace” (taiping 太平) religious and political culture in the Zhenzong era (997-1022) and the later reaction against this culture, sometimes simplified as the “guwen movement,” under Renzong (1022-1063). A major contribution to scholarship on Song, this path-breaking study probes the religious and theoretical underpinnings of the authoritarian nature of the early Song state.
── Charles Hartman (Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, The University at Albany, State University of New York)
