Wáng Shìzhēn 王士禛 (1634–1711), zì Yíshàng 貽上, hào Ruǎntíng 阮亭, also Yúyángshānrén 漁洋山人 (“Yúyáng Mountain Recluse”), of Xīnchéng 新城 (Jǐnán prefecture, Shāndōng, modern Huántái 桓臺). CBDB id 35063; lifedates firm.
The name 王士禛 was officially changed to 王士正 by Qiánlóng’s xiānghuì edict (1697) on the fēnghuì taboo for the Yōngzhèng emperor’s personal name 胤禛; and again later to 王士禎. All three forms appear in Qīng sources; the original was 王士禛, which is the form preserved in the SBCK title of the Yúyáng shānrén jīng huá lù and in the catalog meta.
Jìnshì of Shùnzhì 15 (1658). Held a long sequence of major posts: prefect of Yángzhōu (where he established the famous Hóngqiáo poetry-meetings); minister of personnel; Xíngbù shàngshū (Minister of Justice); and, in his final years, Lǐbù shàngshū (Minister of Rites). The dominant poetic voice of the early Qīng — the founder of the Shényùn 神韻 school (“Spirit-Resonance”), with its program of indirect, allusive lyrical compression modeled on Wáng Wéi and Mèng Hàorán. He was the senior literary patron of the lower-Yangzi bǎnqiáo / yángzhōu poetic circles and the principal teacher of 朱彝尊, 宋犖, and many others. His Chí běi ǒu tán 池北偶談 (informal critical-philological bǐjì) and Yúyáng shīhuà 漁洋詩話 (the Shényùn poetics manifesto) are foundational early-Qīng critical works. A vast collected works survives in the Daìjīngtáng quánjí 帶經堂全集 (50+ juan); the present Jīng huá lù (KR4f0019) is the selected 10-juan poetry recension prepared by Wáng’s friend Lín Gǔdù 林古度 and prefaced by 錢謙益 Qián Qiānyì in jǐchǒu (Kāngxī 8, 1669) — Qián then aged 88, two years before his death.