Lín Shìzhī 林式之 (fl. mid-13th c.), zì Zǐjìng 子敬. A native of Fúqīng 福清 (Fújiàn 福建), in the same clan-lineage as Lín Xīyì 林希逸 (林希逸), of whom he was a disciple and a younger second-cousin (zàicóng xiōngzǐ 再從兄子, per Lín Tóng’s preface to KR4d0370).
Career. Held a post as Magistrate-Recorder (fǎcáo-staff) of Pǔjūn 莆軍法曹掾 in the same period when Lín Xīyì served at Xìnghuà 興化 / Pǔ. Later transferred to be Vice-Prefect of Sānyáng 三陽通守 (modern Cháozhōu 潮州, Guǎngdōng), where in Xiánchún 4 (1268) he undertook to fund the cutting of his teacher’s xùjí (continuation collection) — the present KR4d0370 Zhúxī Juànzhāi shíyī gǎo xùjí in 30 juàn. Lín Tóng’s preface explicitly records that Shìzhī had “in this office obtained a small income, and saving from his food-and-clothing supply, accumulating bit by bit, sought to fulfil his lifetime’s unfulfilled wish” — that is, to support the printing of his teacher’s writings.
Role. Lín Shìzhī is the editorial compiler of KR4d0370: the categorization into thirteen sections (poetry, miscellaneous prose, early works, jì, xù, bá, sìliù, shěngtí shī, wǎnshī, jìwén, mùzhì, xíngzhuàng, xuéjì) is his. He had earlier also overseen the cutting of the last 10 juàn of Liú Kèzhuāng’s 劉克莊 Hòucūn xiānshēng dàquánjí 後村先生大全集 — his name appearing on the colophon of those juàn as supervising-cutter. Lín Shìzhī was therefore a recognized editorial-and-publishing figure in Fújiàn late-Sòng literary circles.
Sources. Lín Tóng’s 1270 preface to KR4d0370 is the principal contemporary source. CBDB person 11070 (with limited dating).
Works in the Kanripo corpus. KR4d0370 Zhúxī Juànzhāi shíyī gǎo xùjí 竹溪鬳齋十一藁續集 (editor, biān 編).