Jiǎng Tìshēng 蔣悌生
Style name Rénshū 仁叔 (the WYG tíyào gives it as Shūrén 叔仁; the original preface is signed Rénshū). Native of Fúníng zhōu 福寧州 (modern Xiápǔ 霞浦, Fújiàn). The Sìkù tíyào on the Wǔ jīng lí cè 五經蠡測 (KR1g0015) records that he composed the work during the late Yuán (in hiding from war in the Lántián 藍田 valley) and was subsequently appointed xùndǎo 訓導 (Instructor at a county school) early in the Hóngwǔ era — passing the míngjīng (Brightening the Classics) recommendation rather than via the regular jìnshì track. His self-preface (signed Hóngwǔ gēngxū = 1370) gives no birth or death dates; the work itself was not printed until 1538, well over a century after his death, and was eventually retrieved in 1538 by the Jiājìng-era Pútián gazetteer compiler Mǐn Wénzhèn 閔文振, who obtained the manuscript from Jiǎng’s descendant Zōngyǔ 宗雨 and saw it through the press.
His scholarship is in the late-Yuán Sòng-orthodox tradition: he uses Chéng Yí’s Yìzhuàn and Zhū Xī’s Běn yì together for the Yì, Cài Shěn’s zhuàn for the Shū, and a moderately independent line on the Shī preface. His work is one of the more philologically modest YuánMíng Wǔ jīng compendia — its strength being the very fact of its independence from Cài Shěn’s authority on individual passages, rather than any global methodological innovation. CBDB id 111738; lifedates uncertain.