Zhā Jìzuǒ 查繼佐 (1601–1677), zì Yīhuáng 伊璜 / Yǔzhāi 與齋 / Jìngxiū 敬修, hào Dōngshān diàoshǐ 東山釣史 (“the Dōngshān fisherman-historian”). Native of Hǎiníng 海寧, Zhèjiāng. Late-Míng / early-Qīng historian and Míng-loyalist; jǔrén of Chóngzhēn 6 (1633) but never jìnshì. Served briefly under the Southern Míng of Lóngwǔ 隆武 emperor (1645–46) before retiring into permanent reclusion. After the Míng collapse he devoted his remaining thirty years to historical writing — chiefly the Zuìwéi lù 罪惟錄 (KR2d0017), a 90-juǎn private guóshǐ of the Míng dynasty composed under Qīng-period proscription, and the Dōngshān guóyǔ 東山國語 (KR2d0018) on the Southern Míng courts. Both works circulated only in manuscript and were systematically hidden during Zhā’s lifetime; the Zuìwéi lù was concealed by his family in a sealed wall and rediscovered only in the early twentieth century. Zhā Jìzuǒ was nearly executed in the Zhuāngshì shǐàn 莊氏史案 of 1663 (the Míngshǐ chāolüè affair of KR2d0016) — his name appeared on the colophon-list of subscribers, but he was reportedly spared by the intercession of his former student and the eunuch-general Wú Liùqí 吳六奇 (a famous episode dramatised in Jīn Yōng’s 金庸 Lùdǐng jì 鹿鼎記). His other works include the Bǎnjiàn jí 般菴集 (literary collection) and a Sìtāng huàjiā jì 四唐畫家記 (notes on Táng painters). Zhā was an accomplished kūnqǔ dramatist, founder of the Zhājiā bān 查家班 troupe at Hǎiníng, and patron of women dramatists. CBDB id 65915, dates 1601–1677 (confirmed). Biography: Qīngshǐ lièzhuàn 清史列傳 juǎn 70 (Wényuàn 文苑), supplemented by Méng Sēn (1934).