Liào Shēn 廖侁, late-Northern-Sòng official; the only biographical data are the courtesy titles he records on the dedicatory note of KR5b0136 Nányuè jiǔ zhēnrén zhuàn — Fèngyìláng zhìshì 奉議郎致仕 (retired Gentleman for Court Discussion, an honorific 7th-rank title), Qídūwèi 騎都尉 (Cavalry Commander), and the privilege of the cì fēi yúdài 賜緋魚袋 (the crimson fish-pouch insignia). His editorial preface refers to “the present dynasty’s Privy Council Commissioner Sūn Miǎn 孫沔” (zì Yuánzhī 元之, ca. 996–1066/7) as the protagonist of a contemporary cult miracle in Chángshā; he himself must therefore have been active in the late Northern Song, after Sūn’s Hunan tenure but before the dynasty’s fall in 1127. He took possession of an inherited manuscript Nányuè jiǔxiān zhuàn held in the family of the Daoist Ōuyáng Dàolóng 歐陽道隆 and re-edited it (eleven excisions, thirty-one corrections, four date emendations) so that Ōuyáng could print it alongside his earlier private printings of the Dùrénjīng, Dàodéjīng, and Jiǔyōujīng. The Tōngzhì “Yìwén lüè” 5.9a lists the Nányuè jiǔ zhēnrén zhuàn as anonymous, suggesting Liào’s editorship was not stable in the earliest Southern-Sòng print tradition. The form 廖僥 in the Hánfēnlóu witness of DZ 452 is a typesetting variant, not a different person.