Zhōu Jiāzhòu 周嘉胄
Late-Míng / early-Qīng pǔlù scholar and connoisseur, zì Jiāngzuǒ 江左, native of Yángzhōu 揚州 (the cosmopolitan trade-city of the Chángjiāng delta). Lifedates approximate; the catalog meta gives “d. ca. 1660” and modern reference works generally place him c. 1582 – c. 1658. Spent some forty years on the compilation of his two surviving major works: the Xiāngshèng 香乘 (KR3i0017) on incense, completed in twenty-eight juàn in Chóngzhēn xīnsì (1641); and the Zhuānghuáng zhì 裝潢志 (1620), on the art of scroll-mounting — the foundational Chinese monograph on scroll-mounting that remains a standard reference for traditional Chinese painting conservation.
Zhōu was a Yáng-zhōu-area private scholar, with no recorded office. His preface to the Xiāngshèng describes him as fond of sleep and incense — “hào shuì shì xiāng” — and as having spent thirty years on the work. Lǐ Wéizhēn 李維楨, who wrote the early preface to the 13-juàn draft (probably c. 1618), praises Zhōu’s industry and identifies him as fellow southerner. Zhōu lived through the dynastic transition of 1644 in Yángzhōu — itself the site of the May 1645 massacre — and is presumed to have survived in obscurity in his hometown until c. 1658.