Zhang Dai was a prolific writer/author. By the age of 50, he had completed more than ten literary works. During his later years, nothing prevented him from writing more on what he found to be a worthy subject. Notable works: • 張岱 Zhang Dai: 陶庵夢憶 Tao An Meng Yi, 1986 edition, Golden Maple Publishing House, Taiwan • 張岱 Zhang Dai: 西湖夢尋 Xi Hu Meng Xun, Search The West Lake in Dreams. 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 夜航船 – 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 西湖夢尋 – 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 陶庵夢憶 – 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 嫏嬛文集 – The Paradise of Langhuan. Description of an imagined landscape of gardens, lakes, rivers, trees, mountain views, shrines, and halls. •
The Lean Nags of Yangzhou 揚州瘦馬 – 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Rhyme Mountain" - Reflections on the unpublished work of his grandfather.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 冰山 – Operatic play about the rise and fall of the
eunuch Wei Zhongxian. • Self Written Obituary Poems: •
For Dr Lu •
For the courtesan Wang Yuesheng • ''New Year's Day'' •
Pounding Rice •
For Qi Biaojia •
Rebuttal of Qi Biaojia == Books on Zhang Dai ==