Zhāng Shíchè 張時徹 (1500–1577), zì Wéijìng 維靜, hào Dōngshā 東沙 (also Zhīyuán Zhǔrén 芝園主人, “Master of the Iris Garden”), of Sìmíng 四明 (modern Yīnxiàn 鄞縣 / Ningbo, Zhèjiāng). Mid-Ming official-scholar and prolific writer. Jìnshì of jiājìng 嘉靖 8 (1521). Career: rose through major central-court posts; Tàizǐ tàibǎo 太子太保 (Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince) and senior Liùbù official. Author of the Míng wén héng 明文衡 anthology of Ming literary writing, an important Ming military-statecraft compendium, and the Jíjiù liángfāng 急救良方 (KR3ed034). His medical work is a Confucian-philanthropic contribution to popular-medical publication, motivated by the Ming-era jūnzǐ-gentleman’s act of humane governance topos. CBDB id 28100 (1500–1577). Míng shǐ 明史 j. 200 (biography in his patron’s context); also covered in Sìmíng zhī 四明志 prefectural records.