倪朴

Ní Pǔ 倪朴 (Sòng, fl. 1162–1174)

Zì Wénqīng 文卿. Hào Shílíng 石陵 (after his Pǔjiāng 浦江 village of Shílíng cūn — modern Zhèjiāng). Birth and death years unknown; the catalog meta gives “fl. 1162–1174.”

Career: attempted jìnshì in late Shàoxīng but was unsuccessful. Composed a wànyán shū (10,000-word memorial) intended for submission to Gāozōng but never submitted; the memorial was preserved by Zhèng Bóxióng 鄭伯熊 and Chén Liàng 陳亮 and circulated as a manuscript-polemic. Later was framed by villagers and exiled to Yúnzhōu 筠州 (Jiāngxī); released by amnesty.

Wú Shīdào and Sòng Lián composed his memorial zhuàn; both single out his geographical-strategic expertise. He composed a Yúdì huìyuán zhì 輿地會元志 in 40 juǎn — a major Sòng-dynasty geographical compendium, now lost.

Surviving in Kanripo:

• KR4d0239 Ní Shílíng shū (1 juǎn, WYG; the surviving small fragment of his prose, compiled by the Míng Máchéng official Máo Fèngsháo 毛鳳韶 in Jiājìng bǐngxū / 1526; the title shū “letters” rather than jí “collection” is Máo’s deliberate choice to emphasize the centrality of the Nǐ shàng Gāozōng shū).