Zhang Dai - Works By Zhang Dai

Works By Zhang Dai

Notable works

  • 张岱 Zhang Dai: 陶庵梦忆 Tao An Meng Yi, 1986 edition, Golden Maple Publishing House, Taiwan
  • 张岱 Zhang Dai: 西湖梦寻 Xi Hu Meng Xun, Search The West Lake in Dreams. ISBN 957-763-132-0

Full list

  • The Biographies of Five Unusual People - Eight biographies of distant family members.
  • Book of the Stone Casket - History of the Ming Dynasty completed in the 1670s.
  • Historical Gaps - Study of deliberate omissions in Chinese history
  • The Night Ferry - A Compendium of Knowledge to aid conversations between strangers
  • Portraits with Commentary of the Imperishable Worthies of the Shaoxing Region in the Ming - (with Xu Quin) Collection of portraits of worthy figures - incomplete.
  • Profiles of Righteous and Honorable People Through the Ages - Collection of 400 compact biographical studies of worthy people from the second millennium BC to the 1360s.
  • Sequel to the Book of the Stone Casket - Describing the fall of the Ming dynasty and apportioning blame.
  • Tracing Westlake in a Dream - Memories of his beloved West Lake in the city of Hangzhou. A beautiful lake surrounded by villas and gardens, later destroyed in the war following the fall of the Ming.
  • The Dream Recollections of Taoan - Flashes of memories of his earlier life that came to Zhang Dai whilst in hiding as a Taoist monk following the fall of the Ming.
  • Langhuan Wenji - The Paradise of Langhuan. Description of an imagined landscape of gardens, lakes, rivers, trees, mountain views, shrines, and halls.
  • The Lean Nags of Yangzhou - On the concubine market in the town of Yangzhou.
  • On Matteo Ricco - Comments on the Chinese work of a westerner, the Jesuit Matteo Ricci.
  • On Putuo Shrine - Essay on his journey to the island of Putuo, one of the most sacred Buddhist sites in China.
  • "Rhyme Mountain" - Reflections on the unpublished work of his grandfather.
  • Letter to the Prince of Lu - Letter to the leader of the southern Ming known as the Prince of Lu following the fall of the dynasty, encouraging him to restore the dynasty to China.
  • Ice Mountain - Operatic play about the rise and fall of the eunuch Wei Zhongxian.
  • Self Written Obituary

Poems

  • For Dr Lu
  • For the Singer Courtesan Wang Yuesheng
  • New Year's Day
  • Pounding Rice
  • For Qi Biaojia
  • Rebuttal of Qi Biaojia

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