Zhang Han (official)

Zhang Han (1511–1593) was a leading scholar-official during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) of China. Although eventually posted to serve in the capital at Beijing, Zhang was a native of the thriving commercial city of Hangzhou and a descendent of a wealthy family that ran a textile business.Brook, 16.] He was also a literary author, a painter, a follower of Chinese Buddhism, and an essayist while in retirement from office during his later years. According to the historian Timothy Brook, he was a "close observer of the changes of his age," in reference to China's intensified commercialism and consumption of commodities in the late Ming era and its affects upon Chinese culture.

Notes

References

*Brook, Timothy. (1998). "The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China". Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22154-0