Zhōu Zōngjiàn 周宗建 (1582–1626)
Zì Jìhóu 季侯, hào Láiyù 來玉; posthumous title Zhōngyì 忠毅. Native of Wújiāng 吳江 (modern Sūzhōu region, Jiāngsū). Late-Míng Dōnglín 東林 martyr.
Jìnshì of Wànlì guǐchǒu (1613). Career: served as magistrate of Wǔkāng 武康 (Zhèjiāng — where the lectures recorded in his Lúnyǔ shāng KR1h0050 were given); thence to Jiānchá yùshǐ 監察御史 (investigating censor); served as touring inspector of Húguǎng 巡按湖廣. Together with the Dōnglín leaders (Yáng Liǎn 楊漣, Zuǒ Guāngdǒu 左光斗, Wèi Dàzhōng 魏大中, etc.), he was one of the Dōnglín liù jūnzǐ 東林六君子 (“Six Gentlemen of the Dōnglín”) who in 1624 memorialised against Wèi Zhōngxián’s 魏忠賢 corruption. He was arrested, tortured, and killed in prison in 1626 (Tiānqǐ 6); rehabilitated under Chóngzhēn (1628) with posthumous title Zhōngyì 忠毅 and the rank of Tàipúsì qīng 太僕寺卿. Míngshǐ 245.
His one surviving Kanripo work is the Lúnyǔ shāng 論語商 (KR1h0050), a 2-juàn commentary compiled from his jiǎnglùn 講論 (lecture-discussion) sessions with disciples while serving as Wǔkāng magistrate (ca. 1615–1620). The Sìkù tíyào at KR1h0050 notes that Zhōu’s learning, despite being intellectually drawn toward Chán (the yǔlù style is unmistakable in places), nonetheless produces a number of substantively insightful readings — “qí rén yǔ rìyuè zhēng guāng 其人與日月爭光” (his man stands as a star contesting brightness with the sun and moon) — and the work itself accordingly stands as a worthy contribution.
(CBDB id 128820; dates 1582–1626 firm from Míngshǐ 245.)