Zōu Yuánbiāo 鄒元標 (1551–1624), zì Ěrzhān 爾瞻, hào Nángāo 南皋, posthumous title Zhōngjiè 忠介, was a late-Míng Dōnglín 東林 leader from Jíshuǐ 吉水 (Jiāngxī). He passed the jìnshì in Wànlì xīnchǒu 萬曆辛丑 = 1601 (actual: 萬曆 5, 丁丑 = 1577 — sources vary; CBDB and the Sìkù tíyào agree on 1551–1624 lifedates) and reached Zuǒ dū yùshǐ 左都御史 (Left Censor-in-Chief). The Sìkù tíyào reports he was jìnshì in 萬曆辛丑 (1601), but this is widely held to be incorrect — Zōu’s actual jìnshì year was Wànlì 5 dīngchǒu 丁丑 (1577); see commentary by Goodrich-Fang and DMB. His career was defined by the 1577–1579 duóqíng 奪情 controversy over Zhāng Jūzhèng 張居正’s refusal to observe full mourning for his father — Zōu’s vehement memorial against Zhāng resulted in his being tíngzhàng (caned in court) and exiled. He returned to court only after Zhāng’s death; in late Wànlì he co-founded the Shǒushàn shūyuàn 首善書院 in Beijing with Féng Cóngwú 馮從吾 (cf. KR4e0226) and became one of the principal Dōnglín spokesmen. He was zǎo niàn dào (early in life learned the Way) by following Hú Zhí 胡直 (cf. Hú Zhí among Jiāngyòu Wángmén figures); his philosophical line is therefore Yángmíng zhīpài (Yángmíng branch) but guījǔ zhǔnshéng chí zhī shèn yán (rules and standards held very strictly) — i.e., not falling into the antinomian excesses of the èrWáng liúbì (Two Wángs downstream-defects = Wáng Jī, Wáng Gěn). His main biography is in Míng shǐ j. 243. CBDB 34747.