Hú Shì’ān 胡世安
Late-Míng / early-Qīng official and scholar, zì Chǔjìng 處靜, hào Xiùyán 秀岩, posthumous Wénjìng 文敬. Native of Bā 巴 (Sìchuān). Lifedates 1593–1663 per CBDB 57324. Although the catalog meta gives dynasty as 清, his career began in the Míng — jìnshì of Tiānqǐ 5 (1625) — and continued through the dynastic transition into the Qīng.
Career: rose through the late-Míng court as a jíshì zhōng (court censor) and Hànlín xuéshì; survived the Qīng conquest and was recruited by the new dynasty, rising to dàxuéshì (Grand Secretary) under Shùnzhì. One of the small group of late-Míng senior officials who transitioned smoothly into Qing service.
His attested works include: (1) the Yìyú túzàn jiān 異魚圖贊箋 (KR3i0049) — his Chóng-zhēn-period (1630, gēngwǔ) commentary on Yáng Shèn’s Yìyú túzàn (KR3i0048); (2) the Yìyú túzàn bǔ 異魚圖贊補 (KR3i0050) — his supplementary continuation of the same; (3) various poetry-and-prose collections (mostly lost or unprinted).
His Yìyú túzàn jiān was composed during a period when he was a late-Míng official; the work bears a Chóngzhēn gēngwǔ (1630) preface and so was composed at age 38 during his Hànlín years. The supplementary Bǔ was added later, perhaps after his Qing service. Together the two works are the most exhaustive Chinese pre-modern compilation on rare fish-and-marine creatures.