Yáng Míngshí 楊名時 (1660–1736), zì Bīnshí 賓實, hào Níngzhāi 凝齋, posthumous title Wéndìng 文定, was a high KāngxīYōngzhèngQiánlóng court official, Yìjīng scholar, and provincial administrator from Jiāngyīn 江陰 (Chángzhōu 常州, Jiāngsū 江蘇). He passed the jìnshì in Kāngxī xīnwèi 康熙辛未 = 1691 — under Lǐ Guāngdì 李光地 (李光地) as chief examiner — and rose to Minister of Rites and Senior Tutor of the Heir Apparent. He served as Yúnnán 雲南 Governor and is associated with the early-Qīng administrative integration of the southwest borderlands.
Yáng was Lǐ Guāngdì’s principal Yìxué pupil and the leading early-Qiānlóng-period continuation of the Lǐ Guāngdì school. His main Yì writing is the Zhōuyì zhájì 周易劄記 (KR1a0141) in two juàn, completed after the imperial Zhōuyì zhé zhōng (KR1a0117) of 1715. While Yáng’s exposition of the Shuōguà zhuàn and the Qǐ méng extends the xiāntiān diagrams (in keeping with Lǐ Guāngdì’s tradition), his canonical exegesis is purely yìli-oriented and does not lapse into chart-and-numerology. He is recognized as a faithful but moderate transmitter of his master’s Yìxué. While he served as Yúnnán Governor, the local scholar Xià Zōnglán 夏宗瀾 came to study Yì with him; the yǔlù-style Yì shuō 易說 produced by Xià from these sessions preserves substantial material on Yáng’s teaching method.