Franciscus Verellen,The Fall of the Tang: Gao Pian’s Trials of Allegiance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026.
《唐朝的覆滅——高駢臣節之辨》，傅飛嵐著，劍橋大學出版社，2026年。
内容提要
Military governor, architect, alchemist and poet, Gao Pian (821-87) was one of the most intriguing characters to shape events in ninth-century China. His trajectory provides a step-by-step record of the late Tang empire’s military, fiscal, and administrative unravelling. Utilising exceptionally rich sources, including documents from Gao Pian’s secretariat, inscriptions, narrative and religious literature, and Gao Pian’s own poetry, Franciscus Verellen challenges the official historians’ portrait of Gao as an “insubordinate minister” and Daoist zealot. In an innovative analysis, he argues that the life of this extraordinary general casts much-needed light on ideas of allegiance and disobedience, provincial governance, military affairs and religious life in the waning years of the Tang.
高駢（821–887）身兼節度使、建築師、煉丹術士與詩人，是塑造九世紀中國歷史走向最引人矚目的人物之一。他的人生軌跡為晚唐帝國之軍事、財政與行政的逐步瓦解提供了完整的記錄。傅飛嵐利用極為豐富的史料——包括高駢的幕府文書、碑刻銘文、敘事作品與宗教文獻，以及高駢本人的詩作，挑戰了正史將高駢描繪為“叛臣”與道教狂熱信徒的傳統形象。通過創新性的分析，作者論證，這位非凡將領的生平為理解唐朝末年的忠逆觀念、藩鎮治理、軍事活動及宗教生活提供了不可或缺的視角。
推薦語
‘A powerful account of the collapse of a once-great empire through the life of a statesman-general who fought, in vain, to save it. Employing both historical and literary scholarship, Verellen masterfully reconstructs a complex and fascinating figure long buried under sediments of posthumous slander and caricature.’ Shao-yun Yang - Denison University
這部力作通過一位奮力挽救帝國卻終告失敗的政治家兼將軍的生平，深刻展現一個昔日偉大帝國崩塌的歷程。傅飛嵐融合歷史學與文學研究，以精湛筆觸重塑了這位被身後誹謗與醜化長期掩埋的複雜而迷人的人物形象。——楊劭允（丹尼森大學）
作者簡介
Franciscus Verellen is Professor Emeritus and a former Director of the École française d'Extrême-Orient, where he also occupied the chair in the History of Daoism and headed the Hong Kong and Taipei Centers. He is a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.After graduate studies at Oxford and Paris, Franciscus Verellen began his teaching career at Columbia University and the École pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne). He held visiting appointments at Princeton, Berkeley, Toronto, and Hong Kong and was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a distinguished adjunct researcher at Renmin University, Beijing. Verellen is a member (President in 2025) of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. His previous publications include Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China (Harvard University Press 2019), The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang (3 volumes, ed. with Kristofer Schipper, University of Chicago Press 2004), and Du Guangting (850-933): taoïste de cour à la fin de la Chine médiévale (Collège de France 1989).
（來源：Franciscus Verellen、呂鵬志）
