The Obsessive Gourmet
The Obsessive Gourmet
Zhang Dai on Food and Drink1
Having made the decision to live on after the cataclysmic fall of his dynasty, the late-Ming essayist and historian Zhang Dai (1597-1684) devoted the second half of his life, by his own account in circumstances of great poverty that contrasted starkly with the luxury of his youth, to the attempt to capture in text the glories of a bygone age. Taking as its focus a translation of the “Preface” to one of his compilations entitled Laotao ji, a work itself sadly no longer extant, this chapter will discuss aspects of Zhang Dai's engagement in the late-Ming discourses on fine living.
Keywords: Zhang Dai, Laotao ji, Gourmet, Food, Literature, Culture, China
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