Sūn Chuántíng 孫傳庭 (21 May 1593 – 16 November 1643), zì Bóyǎ 伯雅, hào Báigǔ 白谷, posthumous title Zhōngjìng 忠靖 (granted by the Qiánlóng emperor in Qiánlóng 41 / 1776 as part of the imperial rehabilitation of late-Míng martyrs); native of Dàizhōu Zhènwǔwèi 代州振武衛 (modern Dàixiàn, Shānxī), with ancestral home in Guǎngshān 光山 (Hénán). Jìnshì of Wànlì 47 / jǐwèi (1619) — note that the WYG tiyao of his collected works prints ‘萬曆庚申’ (= 1620) but this is a slip for jǐwèi (1619), 1620 not being a regular metropolitan-exam year. Initially magistrate of Yǒngchéng 永城 and then Shāngqiū 商丘 in Hénán; rose to Director (lángzhōng) of the Ministry of Personnel under Tiānqǐ before retiring in protest at Wèi Zhōngxián’s domination. From Chóngzhēn 9 / 1636 he was Grand Coordinator (xúnfǔ) of Shǎnxī and raised the Qín jūn 秦軍, ambushed and captured the rebel Chuǎngwáng Gāo Yíngxiáng 高迎祥 at Hēishuǐyù 黑水峪 (1636), and with Hóng Chéngchóu 洪承疇 destroyed Lǐ Zìchéng’s army at the southern plain of Tóngguān (1638). Imprisoned in 1639 after Yáng Sìchāng 楊嗣昌’s impeachment; released in 1642 and made Supreme Commander (dūshī) and Bīngbù shàngshū in Chóngzhēn 16 / 1643. Forced into premature campaign by the throne, he was caught in the seven-day downpour at Rǔzhōu 汝州, withdrew, and died fighting in the Bāyuè / tenth-month rout near Wèinán 渭南 after the loss of Tóngguān (3rd day, 10th month, Chóngzhēn 16 = 16 November 1643). The Míngshǐ j. 262 verdict — Chuántíng sǐ, ér Míng wáng yǐ 傳庭死而明亡矣 (‘When Chuántíng died, the Míng was lost’) — has become canonical. His wife Madam Zhāng 張氏 and the women of the household drowned themselves at the family well in Xīān; only his eight-year-old youngest son survived. His surviving writings — memorials, miscellanea, an account of his military-colony administration (Qīng tún lù 清屯錄), and a poetry selection — are gathered as the Báigǔ jí 白谷集 (KR4e0236). The catalog meta date ‘1593–1634’ is a typographical slip for 1643, here corrected after CBDB (34753) and Wikipedia/Wikidata. Míngshǐ j. 262.