Jiǎng Hèdé 蔣赫德 (1615–1670), zì Niàn’é 念莪, native of Liáodōng (registered Han banner) and one of the most influential Han Bannermen scholar-officials of the early Qīng. He passed the jìnshì examination under the Manchu Qīng court in 1646 (Shùnzhì 3) and rose rapidly through the Hànlín, becoming Hànlín xuéshì 學士 in 1652, bǐshìjiǎng 秘書院侍講, shàngshū of the Ministry of Personnel, and Grand Secretary of the Hóngwén yuàn 弘文院 / Bìshū yuàn 秘書院. He was one of the principal architects of the early Qīng synthesis between Manchu institutions and Confucian state ideology. He compiled, on the Shùnzhì emperor’s commission, the Yùdìng Xiàojīng zhù of 1656 (see KR1f0011), the Yùdìng Sìshū jiǎngyì 御定四書講義, and the Yùdìng Tōngjiàn 御定通鑑 — the principal early-Qīng imperial Confucian texts. He was posthumously honored with the title Wényì 文義 (“Literary and Right-minded”).