Wāng Lìmíng 汪立名 (active Kāngxī period, c. 1660s–1700s), hào Xītíng 西亭, was a Xīnān 新安 (modern Huīzhōu) literary scholar and prolific compiler of reference works during the late Kāngxī period. He is best known as the editor of the Zhōngdǐng zìyuán 鐘鼎字源 (a paleographic compilation of bronze-vessel script forms, separately catalogued in the Sìkù) and as the producer of the systematic Qīng critical edition of Bái Jūyì’s 白居易 verse.
His Bái Xiāngshān shī jí KR4c0070 — completed Kāngxī rénwǔ (1702) with prefaces by Zhū Yízūn 朱彝尊 and Sòng Lào 宋犖 — separated Bái’s verse from his prose, re-titled the corpus from Bái’s late-life retreat sobriquet (Xiāngshān jūshì) rather than the Chángqìng official-tenure period, supplied a new niánpǔ (year-by-year chronology), and added systematic philological notes. The Sìkù tíyào judges it the best Qīng edition of Bái’s verse.
His career and dates are not well-documented in standard reference works; CBDB has no matching entry. He was clearly active in the late Kāngxī (the 1702 completion date of his Bái Jūyì project is the firmest fixed point) and worked in the Huīzhōu / Yángzhōu axis where the leading Kāngxī literary patrons — Zhū Yízūn, Sòng Lào, and others — circulated.
Principal works in the corpus: Bái Xiāngshān shī jí KR4c0070 (the Qīng critical edition of Bái Jūyì’s verse).