Zhang, Dai 1597-1679 creator text utu 2008 monographic zh 1 online resource : multiple file formats "陶庵夢憶" by Dai Zhang is a collection of autobiographical essays written around 1665. After the fall of the Ming dynasty left him impoverished, scholar Zhang Dai retreated to the mountains and penned these nostalgic recollections of his earlier privileged life. The 124 short essays capture vanished scenes—drinking parties at West Lake, snowy solitudes, theater performances, and courtesans—blending wisdom and irony as Zhang reflects on a lost world of refined pleasure he now views as merely a dream. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Memories_of_Tao%27an Release date is 2008-05-09 Original publication data not identified Authors, Chinese -- Biography Zhang, Dai, 1597-1676 -- Travel PL Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25401 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25401 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133600.0 25401