Liú Chāngshī 劉昌詩
Zì Xìngbó 興伯. Native of Qīngjiāng 清江 in Línjiāng 臨江 (modern Jiāngxī). CBDB id 33349, with an index year of 1175 (i.e. early-Ningzōng floruit). The Línjiāng fǔzhì 臨江府志 (1572 ed., juan 10) and CBD (vol. 5, p. 3963) record him; precise lifedates are not recoverable. The Sìkù editors’ attempt to date him from internal references in the Lúpǔ bǐjì runs into a chronological inconsistency: one entry refers to events of Shàoxīng guǐchǒu (1133), another to his own jìnshì in Kāixǐ yǐchǒu (1205), and the postface is dated Jiādìng yǐhài (1215) — a seventy-three-year span that would put his jìnshì in his nineties. The editors plausibly conjecture that the first reference is corrupt: 紹熙癸丑 (1193) for 紹興癸丑 (1133), with xī 熙 mis-transcribed as xīng 興.
He attained the jìnshì in Kāixǐ yǐchǒu (1205, “stole the Tàicháng place”) and held the post of Jiān 監 (Inspector) of the Huátíng Lúlìcháng 華亭蘆瀝場 — the salt-monopoly station at Huátíng (modern Sōngjiāng, near Shànghǎi). His sole surviving substantial work, the Lúpǔ bǐjì 蘆浦筆記 (in 10 juan; here catalogued as KR3j0044 under the catalog-meta title 蘆浦日記), takes its name from his salt-station residence at Lúpǔ. He served as a county magistrate at the (otherwise unidentified) Liùfēng 六峰 county-seat, where he funded the printing of the work from his own stipend in 1215. Wáng Shìzhēn 王士禎’s Chí běi ǒu tán 池北偶談 specifically praises Liú’s record of Wáng Fù’s 王復 martyrdom as a supplement to the Sòng shǐ.