Shěn Yìjī 沈翼機
Zì Dànchū 澹初, hào Xīyuán 西園. Native of Hǎiníng 海寧 (Zhèjiāng). Jìnshì of Kāngxī 45 (1706), the same cohort as 嵇曾筠. Birth year 1664 per CBDB (person id 67543); death year not transmitted.
Offices: Hanlin biānxiū 編修 → shìdú xuéshì 侍讀學士. Served as an examiner in Sìchuān; xuézhèng 學政 of Guìzhōu and then of Jiāngxī. Attested alive at least through 1736 (the presentation of the Zhèjiāng tōngzhì).
Principal biānzuǎn 編纂 of the Zhèjiāng tōngzhì 浙江通志 (KR2k0044, 280 juan, submitted 1736), working with the biānxiū Fù Wánglù 傅王露 and the jiǎntǎo Lù Kuíxūn 陸奎勳 under Jī Zēngyún’s 嵇曾筠 supervision. His own poetry collection Dànchū shīgǎo 澹初詩稿 in 8 juan also survives.