Liú Yìqìng 劉義慶 (403–444), Prince Kāng of Línchuān 臨川康王, was the second son of Liú Dàolián 劉道憐 and a nephew of the Liú Sòng founder Wǔdì 武帝 (Liú Yù 劉裕). Adopted as heir to his uncle Liú Dàoguī 劉道規, Prince Jǐng of Línchuān, in 415, he inherited the principality and the rank of Sītú 司徒 in the southern court. His official career took him to senior provincial appointments — successive Governorships of Jīngzhōu 荊州 (from 432) and Jiāngzhōu 江州 — where his princely seat became one of the most active literary centres of the Yuánjiā 元嘉 reign (424–453). Pieced together from the Sòng shū 宋書 51 and Nán shǐ 南史 13 biographies and the Shìshuō xīnyǔ preface tradition, the picture is of a contemplative prince less inclined to politics than to letters and the patronage of letters: he is credited with gathering a circle of literati that included Yuán Shū 袁淑, Lù Zhǎn 陸展, Hé Chángyú 何長瑜 and Bào Zhào 鮑照, and under his name (and presumably with their hands) the Shìshuō xīnyǔ 世說新語 (KR3l0002), the Yōumíng lù 幽明錄 (志怪) and the Xuānyàn jì 宣驗記 (Buddhist miracle tales) were assembled. CBDB id 468156 records the name with no lifedates entered; the dates 403–444 are the standard reading from the Sòng shū biography. A devout Buddhist in later life, he died of illness in 444.