Late-Yuán literatus of Qiántáng 錢塘 (modern Hángzhōu). Style-name Sīfù 思復; self-styled Xīnbái dàorén 心白道人 (“White-Hearted Daoist”). He passed the Yuán Zhìzhèng xīnsì (1341) xiāngjiàn (provincial selection) and rose to fù tíjǔ (deputy supervising commissioner). When Zhāng Shìchéng 張士誠 occupied the Sūzhōu region, he retired and lived in Wújiāng, then moved to Huátíng. He died in the early Hóngwǔ era. He was famously broad-read and retentive: at his provincial examination, no other candidate among the three thousand assembled knew the origins of the topic “Luóchà jiāng fù” 羅刹江賦 — Qián was the only one to ground it in Méi Shèng’s Qīfā, identifying the Qiántángjiāng’s bore-front as the “Luóchà jiāng”. (The tíyào compilers note in a self-amending parenthesis that Méi Shèng had actually identified the Guǎnglíng tidal bore, not the Qiántáng — but the conventional Hàn-era misidentification had naturalized; Qián’s fù perpetuated the slip rather than correcting it.) The zhǔsī (head examiner) praised him highly, and he became famous on that basis. His Jiāngyuè sōngfēng jí 江月松風集 (KR4d0560) is the surviving witness; the text was transmitted in Qián’s own holograph through Lùshì of Liànchuān to Cáo Róng 曹溶 of Jiāxīng, then re-copied by Jīn Kǎn 金侃 with collation against the Xǔshì of Fǔlǐ copy in the Kāngxī era.