Xiàng Bīn 項霦, native of Línhǎi 臨海 in Tāizhōu 台州 (Zhèjiāng), early-Míng official of the Hóngwǔ 洪武 era (1368–1398). He came from a hereditary scholarly household and retired into private study for more than ten years before being appointed àncháshī qiānshì 按察司僉事 (assistant judicial commissioner) of Jiāngxī in winter of jǐyǒu 已酉 = 1369. His full lifedates are not recoverable. According to Huáng Zhāo’s 黄昭 preface to the Xiàojīng shùzhù (see KR1f0009), Xiàng “succeeded in his father’s resolve” (kè chéng fù zhì 克承父志) by composing his own writings; his colleagues in the Jiāngxī judicial office anthologized his collected works and singled out the Xiàojīng commentary as a separate publication. The CBDB does not list him; the Mingshǐ “Bibliographic Treatise” does not record him; Zhū Yízūn’s Jīngyì kǎo lacks his name; the Sìkù editors recovered the Xiàojīng shùzhù only from a fragment in the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn. He is thus known almost entirely from this single late-recovered work.