Xióng Fāng 熊方
Zì Guǎngjū 廣居. Native of Fēngchéng 豐城 (in modern Jiāngxī, then under Lónɡxīng-fǔ 隆興府). Floruit early Southern Sòng, mid-twelfth century.
A Shàngshēshēng 上舍生 graduate of the Imperial Academy (the highest grade of the Northern Sòng sānshē curriculum, conferring direct entry into office). Held the post of Yòu díngōng láng 右迪功郎 and concurrently acting Lǐzhōu sīhù cānjūn 澧州司戶參軍. According to the Fēngchéng xiàn zhì 豐城縣志, he named his study-hall Bǔ shǐ 補史 (“Supplementing the Histories”), an indication of his self-conception as a continuator of the Hòu Hànshū.
His one major surviving work is the Bǔ Hòu Hànshū niánbiǎo 補後漢書年表 (KR2a0010), in 10 juǎn, the earliest and most influential supplement to the Hòu Hànshū tables. It is dateable to the Shàoxīng era of Sòng Gāozōng (1131–1162), as established by the jǐnbiǎo’s reference to Gāozōng’s imperial calligraphy on the Tàixué Shíjīng 太學石經 (cut in 1143). CBDB id 15473 (no transmitted lifedates).