Shěn Bǐngzhèn 沈炳震
Native of Guī’ān 歸安 (in Húzhōu prefecture, modern Wúxīng 吳興, Zhèjiāng). Lifedates 1679–1738 (per CBDB id 65746 and the catalog meta, which agree). Active in the early-Qiánlóng era.
His sole substantial surviving classical work is the Jiǔ jīng biàn zì dú méng 九經辨字瀆蒙 (KR1g0030) in 12 juàn: a critical-philological work distinguishing nine classical books’ graphic variants and phonetic loans, organized in a careful 12-step typology. He also produced the Jiǎzǐ huì jì 甲子會記 (genealogical-tabular study of imperial-era reign-names), the Tóngjiàn liú yún jiàn nián biǎo 通鑑流韻鑑年表 (a verse-mnemonic table for Zīzhì tōngjiàn dates), and a number of historical-bibliographical works.
The Jiǔ jīng biàn zì dú méng is methodologically the most precise mid-Qing graphic-philology compendium prior to Duàn Yùcái’s monumental Shuōwén jiězì zhù (1815). The 12-fold typology — jīng diǎn zhòng wén 經典重文 (classical doublings); jīng wú zhòng wén 經無重文 (singletons); jīng diǎn zhuàn é 經典傳譌 (textual errors); jīng diǎn zhuàn yì (jùn) 經典傳異 (variant cuts); jīng diǎn tōng jiè 經典通借 (graphic loans); xiān rú yì dú 先儒異讀 (variant readings of older Confucians); tóng yīn yì yì 同音異義 (homophonic ambiguity); yì yīn yì yì 易音易義 (changed sound, changed sense); zhù jiě zhuàn shù rén 註解傳述人 (annotators and their lineages) — covers virtually every kind of textual variation a Qing classicist could encounter. CBDB id 65746.