Lost steam about halfway through. I like day to day information. Biographies are tough. Interesting history though, Zhang Dai saw a lot.
In Return to Dragon Mountain Jonathan Spence explores in detail the life and times of the privileged class in China just before and after the Manchu invasion in 1644 and the subsequent collapse of the Ming dynasty. And he does so using the extensive writings of a participant, one Zhang Dai, a prol...
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