Wáng Shènzhōng 王愼中 (1509–1559), zì Dàosī 道思, hào Zūnyán 遵巖, of Jìnjiāng 晉江 (Quánzhōu, Fújiàn). Took the jìnshì in Jiājìng 5 (1526); office reached Hénán Bùzhèng sī cānzhèng. He is one of the founding figures of the Tang-Sòng-pài (唐宋派, “TángSòng School”) in Míng prose theory, with Táng Shùnzhī, Guī Yǒuguāng, and Máo Kūn. His literary-historical conversion-narrative — first an adherent of the Lǐ Mèngyáng / Hé Jǐngmíng QínHàn archaist program, then an awakening to Ōuyáng Xiū and Zēng Gǒng, the burning of juvenilia, and the singular imitation of Sòng-prose models — is one of the most often-cited episodes in Míng literary history. He is paired with Táng Shùnzhī as “Wáng Táng” 王唐. His collection is the Zūnyán jí KR4e0185. He died in 1559; the WYG recension is the posthumous 1571 cleaned-up edition prepared by his son Wáng Tóngkāng and son-in-law Zhuāng Guózhēn. CBDB 695301 has only zero markers; standard Míng reference works give 1509–1559.