Lǐ Shàn 李善 (d. 689) of Jiāngdū 江都 (modern Yángzhōu) was a Táng Wén xuǎn 文選 specialist who produced what became the canonical commentary on Xiāo Tǒng’s anthology. He studied with the great SuíTáng Wén xuǎn lecturer Cáo Xiàn 曹憲 in his youth. He held office as Wénlín láng 文林郎, recording-secretary of the Right Inner Guards of the Crown Prince’s establishment, and Direct Scholar of the Chóngxián Academy 崇賢館. After being entangled in the disgrace of the Suí imperial relative He Lánmǐn 賀蘭敏之 he was demoted but later restored. He presented his completed commentary to Tánggāozōng on the third day of the ninth month of Xiǎnqìng 3 (658). He withdrew to Biànzhōu 汴州 in retirement and lectured on the Wén xuǎn, founding what became the Wén xuǎn xué 文選學 transmission lineage; his pupils included Gōngsūn Luó 公孫羅 and his own son Lǐ Yǒng 李邕 (678–747). The complete commentary is the principal vehicle for his learning (KR4h0002, also KR4h0003 as one of the six commentators). His method — to gloss every phrase by its earliest extant locus — made his work an invaluable witness to many lost early texts. Standard biographies in Jiù Táng shū 189 and Xīn Táng shū 202. CBDB ID 31591 gives only the death year 689 and floruit 659–667; the jìnbiǎo of 658 indicates his floruit must be extended slightly earlier.