Yīn Yún 殷芸 (471–529), zì Guànshū 灌蔬, native of Chénjùn 陳郡 Chángpíng 長平 (Hénán). His biography is in Liáng shū 41 (列傳 35) and Nán shǐ 60. He rose through senior secretarial posts under Liáng Wǔdì 梁武帝 — Mìshū jiān 秘書監, Shàngshū lìbù láng 尚書吏部郎, and Sǎnqí chángshì 散騎常侍 — and is recorded as an exceptionally well-read scholar with strong personal interests in the historical and zhìrén genres. He is the credited author of the Yīn Yún xiǎoshuō 殷芸小說 (KR3l0158) in 10 juàn, compiled at the explicit commission of Liáng Wǔdì in the late 510s as an anthology of xiǎoshuō-type material that the imperial Tōngshǐ 通史 project had abstracted out of the orthodox history-record. The work — surviving only in fragments — is foundational in the history of the Chinese xiǎoshuō tradition, being the earliest extant Chinese book to use xiǎoshuō as a self-conscious book-title. Yīn Yún died in 529; he has no CBDB id in the current dump.