Féng Qí 馮琦 (1558–1603), zì Yòngyùn 用韞, hào Zhuó’ān 琢菴, of Línqú 臨朐 in Shāndōng. From a distinguished bureaucratic lineage; jìnshì of Wànlì 5 (1577) at not yet twenty suì. Career in the central court: Hànlín bachelor, then a long sequence of posts in the Hànlín Academy and the editorial offices, rising under Wànlì to Vice-Minister of Rites (Lǐbù shìláng 禮部侍郎). One of the most respected of the late-Wànlì literati; biography in Míngshǐ 216. While in office he conceived the project of a jìshì běnmò treatment of the Sòng (mirroring Yuán Shū’s of the Tōngjiàn) and began the materials, but died with the work incomplete; his draft passed through the Censor Liú Yuēwǔ 劉曰梧 of Nánchāng to Chén Bāngzhān 陳邦瞻, who completed and published it in 1605 as the Sòngshǐ jìshì běnmò (KR2c0007). About three-tenths of the surviving text is reckoned by the Sìkù compilers to derive from Féng’s draft. Author of the Zōng Bó jí 宗伯集 (literary collection) and other works. — CBDB (personid 123637) prints “1548–1603” for the lifedates, but its own note records “Jiājìng 37 – Wànlì 31” (1558–1603), which is followed here and matches Wilkinson. The catalog meta of KR2c0007 gives the writer’s name as “馮琦原” with dates 1558–1603; the “原” appears to be a copying artefact (possibly from “原序”, “original preface”) and not part of the name — the person is Féng Qí 馮琦, as the Sìkù tíyào and all standard biographies confirm.