Zhuāng Tínglóng 莊廷鑨 (?–ca. 1660), Míng-loyalist scholar of Nánxún 南潯 (modern Húzhōu 湖州, Zhèjiāng) — son of the wealthy Zhuāng family of Nánxún. He was blind, and after the dynastic transition (1644) acquired the manuscript draft of a Míng dynastic history compiled by the late-Míng historian Zhū Guózhēn 朱國楨 (1558–1632), which Zhū’s family had sold to him under financial pressure. Zhuāng commissioned a team of Jiāngnán scholars to expand and complete the manuscript as the Míngshǐ chāolüè 明史鈔略 (also Míngshǐ jílüè 明史輯略, Míngshū jílüè 明書輯略, KR2d0016). The work covered the Míng down to 1644 and into the Southern Míng zhèngshuò (using the regnal years of the southern princes rather than Qīng Shùnzhì); Qīng emperors before the dynasty proper were referred to by personal name rather than reign-title. Zhuāng died before publication; the work was issued posthumously around 1660 by his father Zhuāng Yǔnchéng 莊允誠. In 1661 a disgruntled informer (the former Qīng official Wú Zhīróng 吳之榮) reported the work to the Qīng authorities; in 1663, after a long investigation, the Manchu court reacted with extraordinary severity to make an example of Jiāngnán literati: Zhuāng Tínglóng’s corpse was disinterred and quartered; about seventy persons (compilers, printers, booksellers, purchasers, and members of all involved families) were executed; many more were exiled to the Nínggǔtǎ 寧古塔 frontier or enslaved. The episode is the largest of the early-Qīng literary inquisitions and is treated by Lynn Struve as a foundational event in Qīng-period literati self-censorship. CBDB id 65948 with death year 1660. The principal sources on the affair are the Qīng Shèngzǔ shílù 清聖祖實錄, Quán Zǔwàng’s 全祖望 Jiéqí tíng jí 鮚埼亭集, and the ECCP entry “Chuang T’ing-lung.”