Urban Literati (A Biography of Zhang Dai)

Author: She Deyu
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Zhang Dai was a distinctive figure in the cultural history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He achieved significant accomplishments in literary history, art history, and historiography, particularly in his prose. This book comprehensively and systematically narrates and examines Zhang Dai's great-grandfather, grandfather, father, maternal grandfather, maternal grandmother, and their close associates, as well as Zhang Dai's brothers, wives, concubines, and descendants. It reveals many materials rarely found in other works. The land of Zhejiang, though not exceptionally vast but deeply rooted in culture, has nurtured numerous cultural luminaries: Wang Xizhi, Xie Lingyun, Luo Binwang, Meng Jiao, Han Shan, Zhao Mengfu, Huang Gongwang, Wang Meng, Mao Dun, Xia Yan, Yu Dafu, Zhu Kezhen, Tong Dizhou. They devoted their talents to the inheritance and innovation of culture, achieving great accomplishments. The "Biographies of Zhejiang Cultural Figures Series" is a cultural project launched by the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences in response to the call of the provincial party committee and government, introducing the biographies of 100 ancient and modern Zhejiang-born cultural figures. This book is one of the series, focusing on the urban scholar—Zhang Dai.