Zhāng Biǎochén 張表臣 (fl. ca. 1100–1140s), zì Zhèngmín 正民, late Northern-Sòng / early Southern-Sòng official and literary critic. The Sìkù editors of his Shānhú gōu shīhuà KR4i0017 note that his lǐguàn 里貫 (native place) is otherwise unverifiable. He rose to Yòu chéngyìláng 右承議郎 (a cóngqī 從七 ranking title) and held the position of Tōngpàn 通判 (Vice-Prefect) of Chángzhōu 常州 (modern Jiāngsū). During the Shàoxīng 紹興 era (1131–1162) of Sòng Gāozōng he ended his career as Sīnóng chéng 司農丞 (Assistant Director of the Court of Imperial Granaries).
The Sìkù editors note that he was personally acquainted with Chén Shīdào 陳師道 (1053–1101) — meaning his career began in the very late Northern Sòng, before 1101 — and was an especially close friend of Cháo Shuōzhī 晁說之 (1059–1129). His critical orientation is therefore the late phase of the Yuányòu 元祐 school, alongside Lǚ Běnzhōng 呂本中 and other early-Southern-Sòng shīhuà writers.
The title Shānhú gōu 珊瑚鉤 (“Coral Hook”) of his shīhuà is taken from Dù Fǔ 杜甫’s line wéncǎi shānhú gōu 文彩珊瑚鉤 (“the patterned brilliance, a coral hook”). The Sìkù judges his self-quotation excessive (“loving to insert his own poems, busy to display his strengths”), his qìliàng 器量 (range of mind) somewhat narrow, but his standing among Sòng shīhuà on a par with Huìhóng 惠洪’s Lěngzhāi yèhuà 冷齋夜話.
CBDB id 29558, dates 0/0 (no lifedates). No surviving collected works apart from the Shānhú gōu shīhuà.