Kāng Pián 康駢 (zì Jiàyán 駕言, fl. 877–895) of Chíyáng 池陽 (modern Jīngyáng 涇陽 in Jīngzhào 京兆, Shǎnxī), late-Táng scholar-official and the author of the Jùtán lù 劇談錄 KR3l0109. He passed the jìnshì examination in Qiánfú 乾符 4 (877) — i.e., on the eve of the Huáng Cháo 黃巢 rebellion that broke out the following year — and rose in his subsequent career to the rank of Editor at the Chóngwén Studio (Chóngwén guǎn jiàoshūláng 崇文館校書郎), a junior position in the Imperial Academy. The Xīn Táng shū Yìwén zhì records his name as Kāng Pǐn 康軿 (different graph), but every citation by Sòng bibliographers and léishū writes it as 康駢; the Sìkù compilers note that both characters in their carriage-vehicle senses are semantically consistent with his zì “Jiàyán” and accept 駢 as the correct form. He completed the Jùtán lù in Qiánníng 乾寧 2 (895), making the work one of the last xiǎoshuō collections produced under the Táng. The Sòng catalogues record no other writings under his name. No precise birth or death dates are documented; the bracket of his attested activity is the eighteen years from 877 to 895. CBDB id 30846 (his name appears in BIOG_MAIN without dates). Wáng Dìngbǎo’s 王定保 Zhí yán 摭言 erroneously writes his surname Táng 唐 — a copyist’s slip noted and corrected by the Sìkù compilers.