from writing more on what he found to be a worthy subject. He was a notable author of the xiaopin, a form of short literary essay. 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 "Rhyme Mountain" - Reflections on the unpublished work of his grandfather.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