Wáng Yīngdiàn 王應電 (Míng, fl. mid Jiājìng era ca. 1530–1560; CBDB id 126848 has no birth/death years). Zì Zhāomíng 昭明, hào Míngzhāi 明齋. Native of Kūnshān 崑山 (modern Kūnshān, Jiāngsū). Pupil of Wèi Xiào 魏校 (1483–1543) — when Wáng cites “the Master” (shī yún 師云) in his works he is referring to Wèi Xiào. The Míngshǐ Rúlín zhuàn accordingly attaches his biography to that of Wèi Xiào.
During the Jiājìng era he was driven by the Wokou (Japanese pirate) raids on the Jiangnan coast to take refuge in Jiāngxī, settling permanently in Tàihé 泰和. The Míngshǐ records that he “deeply loved the Zhōulǐ”; spent more than ten years in research before producing his commentaries.
Author of KR1d0015 Zhōulǐ zhuàn 周禮傳 in 10 juan, with Zhōulǐ túshuō 周禮圖說 in 2 juan and Zhōulǐ yìzhuàn 周禮翼傳 in 2 juan as companion volumes (14 juan in total — the Míngshǐ says “several tens of juan,” which is an approximation). Wáng’s distinctive position is to follow the Yú Tíngchūn lineage in holding that the Dōngguān is not lost; his Yìzhuàn contains a Dōngguān bǔyì 冬官補義 reconstructing eighteen offices for the missing ministry. The Sìkù editors are critical of much of his interpretive work but acknowledge that he revived a serious commentary tradition on the Zhōulǐ at a moment when the Sānlǐ was nearly lost as a discipline in the Míng. CBDB id 126848.