Yáng Jī 楊基 (c. 1326–c. 1378), zì Mèngzǎi 孟載, hào Méiān 眉菴, native of Jiāzhōu 嘉州 (Sìchuān) but born and resident in Wú (Sūzhōu) since his grandfather’s appointment in Jiāngzuǒ. One of the canonical Wúzhōng Sìjié 吳中四傑 with 高啟 Gāo Qǐ, 張羽 Zhāng Yǔ, and 徐賁 Xú Bēn — together GāoYángZhāngXú 高楊張徐. Career: Róngyáng zhīxiàn 榮陽縣令; demoted to Zhōnglí 鍾離 (the Hóngwǔ ancestral prison-place); quiet years at Jiāngníng / Jùqū 句曲; recommended back; bīnmù of Jiāngxī xǐng; circuits in Húnán and Guǎngyòu; final post Shānxī ànchá shǐ 山西按察使. Died c. 1378 as a convict labourer (the standard Sìjié fate). The catalog meta records “ca. 1334–1883” — the second figure is a typo, almost certainly for 1378 or 1383. CBDB id 28671 records the name and Míng dynasty but no dates. Wilkinson, Chinese History, §28.4 places him c. 1326–c. 1378. F. W. Mote, Poet Kao Ch’i (1962), ch. 4, treats him as one of the canonical four. His verse and prose collection is KR4e0041 Méiān jí 眉菴集 (Zhāng Qǐáo 1484 recension).