Wú Wěiyè 吳偉業 (1609–1672), zì Jùngōng 駿公, hào Méicūn 梅村, of Tàicāng 太倉 in Sūzhōu prefecture. The pre-eminent Yānnán 燕南 / Lóujiāng 婁江 poet of the early Qing, third in the jìnshì of Chóngzhēn 4 (1631) at twenty-two suì, and the most celebrated of the YānYún circle. Held a sequence of Hànlín-grade posts under the Míng (Hànlín biānxiū 編修, then in successive editorial offices). After the fall of the Míng he retired to Tàicāng; pressed back into service under the Qīng in Shùnzhì 10 (1653) by the Manchu administration, he reluctantly took the post of Director of the National University (guózǐjiàn jì’jiǔ 國子監祭酒), but resigned within four years on the grounds of age and illness, returning to Tàicāng for the last fifteen years of his life. His ambivalence about that act of compromised service (“two reigns served, one heart given”) shaped the elegiac note of his late poetry. Author of the Méicūn jiā cáng gǎo 梅村家藏稿 and the present Suíkòu jìlüè 綏寇紀略 (KR2c0018), a topical history of the late-Míng peasant rebellions composed in retreat at Jiāxīng’s Wànshòu Palace from Shùnzhì 9 (1652). CBDB (personid 35118) and Wilkinson give 1609–1671/1672 (CBDB has 1671); the catalog meta gives 1609–1672, followed here. The death year is conventionally given by Chinese-language reference works as Kāngxī 10 (1672), per the Méicūn nián pǔ 梅村年譜.