Zhào Shànxiāng 趙善湘 (lifedates not securely recorded; fl. late-Níng-zōng / Lǐzōng), zì Qīngchén 清臣, of the Sòng imperial clan — sixth-generation descendant of the Northern-Sòng prince Shāngwáng Zhào Yuánfèn 趙元份, equivalently fifth-generation descendant of Púānyìwáng Zhào Yǔnràng 濮安懿王趙允讓 (the biological father of emperor Yīngzōng 英宗). Father of 趙汝楳 (Zhào Rǔméi). Enfeoffed Wénshuǐjùngōng 文水郡公; posthumously Shǎoshī 少師.
CBDB id 19405. Documentary references at Sòngshǐ (PRC ed.) 230.7296 (běn zhuàn 本傳); Níngbō fǔzhì 17.1089. Final office: Zīzhèngdiàn dàxuéshì 資政殿大學士.
A substantial late-Southern-Sòng Yì-scholar in his own right. Per his Sòngshǐ biography (referenced by the Sìkù tiyao on KR1a0058), his Yì-writings comprise five works: Yuē shuō 約説 (8 juan), Huò wèn 或問 (4 juan), Zhǐ yào 指要 (4 juan), Xù wèn 續問 (8 juan), Bǔ guò 補過 (6 juan). All five are no longer extant in independent transmission; their methodological substance is preserved in his son Zhào Rǔméi’s Zhōuyì jí wén (KR1a0058). The Bǔ guò was the late-life capstone work, much of which Zhào Rǔméi heard by oral instruction from the father directly.
His one surviving canonical work in the Kanripo corpus is the Hóng fàn tǒng yī 洪範統一 (KR1b0021), a brief one-juǎn essay on the “Hóng fàn” 洪範 chapter of the Shàngshū, prefaced Kāixī 3 / 1207. The Sòngshǐ records it under the title Hóng fàn tǒng lùn 洪範統論; the Wényuángé shūmù under Hóng fàn tǒng jì 洪範統紀; the Yǒnglè dàdiàn under the title here adopted, which best matches the substantive thesis.