Sūn Jué 孫瑴
Style name Zǐshuāng 子雙, sobriquet Bēnjūzǐ 賁居子. Native of Huáróng 華容 (in modern Yuèyáng 岳陽 prefecture, Húnán). Active in the early-to-mid seventeenth century — the catalog meta gives “17th cent” without specific dates; CBDB has a separate Tang-period 孫瑴 (id 179684) which is unrelated; the Míng entry (id 565811) is dateless. From the Gǔ wēi shū 古微書 (KR1g0032)‘s self-preface we know that Sūn was working from his family’s substantial book-collection in Huáróng; his interest was the chènwěi 讖緯 (apocrypha) literature, which he saw as preserving “the oddments of antiquity” worth gathering against the Sòng-Confucian sweeping rejection of them.
His work was originally a four-part Wēi shū 微書 (Subtle Books): (i) Fán wēi 樊微 (gathering pre-Qín lost sayings); (ii) Xiàn wēi 線微 (gathering Hàn-Jìn-period footnotes); (iii) Què wēi 闕微 (gathering material on the 72 ancient pre-Hàn dynasties); (iv) Shān wēi 删微 (= the present Gǔ wēi shū, an edited compendium of chènwěi fragments). Three of the four are lost; only the Shān wēi / Gǔ wēi shū survives. The work is the principal pre-modern compendium of chènwěi fragments and is foundational for any study of Hàn-period apocryphal literature.
CBDB id 565811 (Míng-period dynasty 19); lifedates undocumented.