Wèi Xuélián 魏學濂 (1608–1644), zì Zǐyī 子一; younger son of the Dōnglín martyr 魏大中 and younger brother of 魏學洢; native of Jiāshàn 嘉善 (Zhèjiāng). After his father and elder brother both died in 1625 as casualties of the Wèi Zhōngxián persecution, Xuélián as a youth wrote a blood-letter (lìxuè shàngshū) to the Chóngzhēn emperor on his accession (1628) demanding the rehabilitation of his father and the indictment of Wèi Zhōngxián’s surviving partisans (including Ruǎn Dàchéng 阮大鋮); both his father’s rehabilitation as Zhōngjié and his elder brother’s posthumous honour as xiàozǐ followed in Chóngzhēn 1. Jìnshì of Chóngzhēn 13 / gēngchén (1640). He himself died for the dynasty in 1644 at the fall of Běijīng. The Sìkù tiyao to the Máoyán jí (KR4e0243) names him as the re-engraver of his elder brother’s collected works (the second of two impressions, the first being that of Qián Fēn 錢棻, his father’s disciple), though the Sìkù compilers note dryly that ‘Xuélián let the family reputation slip’ (tuí qí jiā shēng 頹其家聲) — apparently a reference to political accommodations in the Hóngguāng régime — and that this very fact ‘shows Xuéyī’s enduring honour to be his own, not borrowed from his father’s shade’. CBDB 34761. Míngshǐ j. 244 (in his father’s biography).