Zhang Chao

For the table tennis player, see Zhang Chao (table tennis).
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.
Zhang Chao
Born1650
She County, Anhui
Pen name
  • San zai daoren (三再道人)
  • Shanlai (山来)
  • Xinzhai (心斋)
OccupationLitterateur, Novelist, Poet, Engraving calligrapher
NationalityChinese
PeriodQing dynasty
Notable worksShadows of Sweet Dreams, New Tales of Yu Chu
Zhang Chao
Traditional Chinese張潮
Simplified Chinese张潮
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhāng Cháo

Zhang Chao (b. 1650) was a Chinese litteratus, publisher,[1] and fiction writer from Anhui. He was born in 1650 during the Qing dynasty. Zhang had extensive knowledge in the field of Confucianism,[2] Taoism[2] and Buddhism.[2] He liked chess, calligraphy, and painting and was skilled as a poet of various genres. He was also interested in flowers, birds, fishes and insects. His works are rich in imagination and associated with the features of the Qing dynasty. Shadows of Sweet Dreams[3][4] and New Tales of Yu Chu[4] are his representative works. He also wrote Huaying ci 花影詞 (Poems of Flower Shadows), Xinang cunjin 奚囊寸錦, and Yin zhong baxian ling 飲中八仙令.

  1. ^ Sun, Suyoung (2015). "Between Writing and Publishing Letters: Publishing Letters About Book Proprietorship". In Richter, Antje (ed.). A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture. Leiden: Brill. pp. 878–899. ISBN 9789004291751.
  2. ^ a b c Preface of Shadows of Sweet Dreams, Page 2
  3. ^ Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju 中华书局, 2008. Youmeng ying 幽梦影, Zhang Chao, (张潮)
  4. ^ a b Li, Wai-yee (2010). "Chapter 3: Early Qing to 1723". In Chang, Kang-i Sun; Owen, Stephen (eds.). The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375. Cambridge University Press. pp. 152–244. ISBN 9781139095426.