Zhāng Pǔ 張溥 (1602–1641), zì Tiānrú 天如, hào Xīmíng 西銘, of Tàicāng 太倉 (Sūzhōu prefecture, Nán Zhílì). One of the most influential intellectual organisers of the late Míng: founder of the Fùshè 復社 (“Restoration Society”) in 1629 — a literary-political alliance of southeast-Chinese scholars committed to reforming examination prose and to reviving classical learning, and a successor to the earlier Dōnglín 東林 movement. The Fùshè held mass gatherings (the Yīnshān dàhuì of 1629; the Jīnlíng dàhuì of 1630; the Hǔqiū dàhuì of 1633), at one point claiming over 2,000 members, and became a serious political force in the late Chóngzhēn court.
Jìnshì of Chóngzhēn 4 (1631); served as Hànlín yuàn shùjíshì (Hanlin Academy bachelor); his subsequent career was constrained by the political enmity of Wēn Tǐrén 溫體仁 and the eunuch faction. Died early at age 40 in Chóngzhēn 14 (1641).
Zhāng’s enormous editorial output dominates late-Míng literary publishing. His signature project was the HànWèi Liùcháo bǎisānjiā jí 漢魏六朝百三家集 KR4h0134 — a 118-juǎn anthology assembling the surviving works of 103 pre-Táng authors, each with Zhāng’s own tící (head-piece preface). His other major works include the Wǔrén mùbēi jì 五人墓碑記 (a famous late-Míng martyrology on the 1626 Sūzhōu eunuch-protest deaths), Qīlù zhāi shīwén héjí 七錄齋詩文合集 (his collected literary works), and a number of examination-preparation editions of the Classics and Histories. His critical position is the Fùshè program: restore the rhetorical norms of HànWèi prose against the late-Míng styles, and use literature to recover political seriousness. CBDB id 118174; standard biographies in Míng shǐ 明史 j.288.