Shī Jiǎo 尸佼 (fl. c. 390–330 BCE). Warring-States philosopher; traditionally a native of Jìn 晉 (some sources say Lǔ 魯). Traditionally identified as advisor and kèqīng (guest minister) of Shāng Yāng 商鞅 in the state of Qín during Shāng Yāng’s reforms (c. 359–338 BCE). After Shāng Yāng’s execution in 338 BCE, Shī Jiǎo is said to have fled to Shǔ 蜀 (modern Sìchuān), where he is supposed to have completed his eponymous philosophical text.
Author of the Shīzǐ 尸子 (KR3j0194), originally a 20-piān / 20-juàn Warring-States zájiā (Eclectic) treatise, recorded in the Hàn shū Yìwénzhì but lost in the medieval period and now reconstructed from fragmentary quotations. The text combines Confucian, Mohist, and Daoist elements characteristic of late-Warring-States zájiā synthesis, and its opening Quàn xué section has notable parallels to Xúnzǐ’s Quàn xué.
Biographical details are limited to the traditional Shāng-Yāng-and-Shǔ narrative; modern scholarship (Paul Fischer’s Shizi: China’s First Syncretist) treats both the historical figure and the textual attribution cautiously.