Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
Jonathan D. Spence, . . Viking, $24.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-670-06357-4
Zhang Dai (1597–1689), subject of this absorbing and evocative literary-biographical study, was a Chinese essayist and historian whose long life bridged the conquest of China by the Manchus and the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644. The upheaval inspired him to write a history of the Ming as well as personal recollections of his youth, which Spence (
Reviewed on: 05/28/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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