Zhāng Shì 張栻 (1133–1180), zì Jìngfū 敬夫 (also Qīnfū 欽夫), hào Nánxuān 南軒, of Hànzhōu Miánzhú 漢州綿竹 (Sìchuān). Son of the Southern-Sòng chief minister and military commander 張浚 (1097–1164). One of the Dōngnán sān xiānshēng 東南三先生 (“Three Masters of the Southeast”) together with Zhū Xī 朱熹 (1130–1200) and Lǚ Zǔqiān 呂祖謙 (1137–1181); the principal Southern-Sòng exponent of the Húxiāng xué 湖湘學 line.
Studied under Hú Hóng 胡宏 (1106–1162) of the Wǔyí school; succeeded Hú Hóng as the principal teacher at the Yuèlù Academy 嶽麓書院 in Tánzhōu 潭州 (modern Chángshā) from c. 1167. Conducted a sustained philosophical correspondence with Zhū Xī on Yì-study, xīnxìng doctrine, and the cultivation of jìng 敬 (“reverent attentiveness”). Held Lìbù lángzhōng 吏部郎中 and lecture-position to the heir apparent; later Pacification Commissioner of JīngnánHúběi 荊湖北路安撫使, dying in office at Jiānglíng 江陵 in Chúnxī 7 (1180), aged 48.
Funerary inscription by Yáng Wànlǐ 楊萬里 (Wén jí 115.24b); long memorial essay by Zhū Xī (Zhūzǐ wénjí 89.1a–9b). Biography in Sòngshǐ 435.18b. CBDB id 7164.
Within the Kanripo corpus he is the author of KR1a0035 Nánxuān Yì shuō 南軒易說 (originally 11 juan, surviving in 3-juan Xìcí fragment) and (collected works) the Nánxuān xiānshēng wén jí 南軒先生文集. He is referenced extensively in Zhū Xī’s collected works and in the philosophical correspondence of the Dōngnán sān xiānshēng generation.