Lǐ Shí 李石 (Sòng, b. 1108, fl. 1162–1180)
Zì Zǐfā 子發. Hào Fāngzhōu xiānshēng 方舟先生 (“Master Squared-Boat”). Native of Zīzhōu 資州 (modern Zīzhōng, Sìchuān). CBDB id 10830 with birth year 1108. No Sòngshǐ biography. Death year unfixed; the catalog meta gives “fl. 1162–1165” but Lǐ’s evidence — the Dèng Chūn Huàjì account of his post-Tàixué bóshì teaching at Chéngdū xuéguān, and Lǐ Xīnchuán’s Cháoyě zájì anecdote on his refusal to correspond with the suddenly-elevated Zhào Xióng — places his late activity well into the 1170s.
In youth he studied with Sū Fú 蘇符 shàngshū; the Sūshì wénzhōngjí yùxù bá he composed for Sū Qiáo identifies him in the Sū-school prose lineage. After his Tàixué bóshì tenure he was reassigned to Chéngdū xuéguān — per Dèng Chūn’s Huàjì, the post drew students “as clouds, Mǐn and Yuè scholars from a thousand li” — making him the architect of the Shǔxué zhī shèng (flourishing of Sìchuān learning) of the late-Lóng-xīng / Chúnxī era. Lǐ Xīnchuán records his integrity in refusing to write to his hometown-acquaintance Zhào Xióng after the latter’s sudden elevation, with consequence that he was not recalled when Zhào held power.
He is a substantial Lǐxué / jīngxué scholar. His classical-exegesis works — Yì shí lì lüè, Hùtǐ lì, Xiàngtǒng, Zuǒshì guàlì, Shī rú lì, Zuǒshì jūnzǐ lì, Shèngyǔ lì, Shī bǔyí — were assembled by his disciple Liú Bólóng 劉伯龍; they survive only as the accidentally-preserved 6-juǎn appendix to his lost full literary collection.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0230 Fāngzhōu jí (24 juǎn, WYG; 5 poetry + 1 cí + 11 prose + 6 classical-exegesis appendix; reconstructed from Yǒnglè dàdiǎn and a Zhèjiāng acquisition).