Shěn Tíngfāng 沈廷芳
Style name Jiāoyuán 椒園. Native of Rénhé 仁和 (modern Hángzhōu 杭州). Nominated to the special Bóxué hóngcí 博學鴻詞 examination of Qiánlóng bǐngchén (1736), passed, and was appointed Hànlín yuàn biānxiū 翰林院編修 (Hanlin Compiler). Career under Qiánlóng: rose to Shāndōng àncháshǐ 山東按察使 (Shandong Surveillance Commissioner).
The catalog meta gives his birth year as 1702; CBDB gives 1711–1772 (id 59090). The CBDB date is followed in the standard Qing prosopographies (Hummel, Eminent Chinese) and is followed here. The discrepancy between catalog and CBDB is noted in the work entry KR1g0026.
His scholarship is a pure-Qing kǎozhèng style, with particular sophistication in textual collation and the liù shū (six-categories) graphic philology. The Shí sān jīng zhùshū zhèng zì 十三經注疏正字 (KR1g0026) is the most ambitious mid-Qing critical-textual work on the Thirteen Classics: an 81-juàn systematic record of corrections to the late-Míng cuts (Imperial Academy, Lùshì Min-cut, Máoshì Jígǔgé, Tōngzhìtáng), based on multi-source collation. The work is, in the Sìkù compilers’ view, “more meritorious to the zhùshū tradition than the zhùshū are to the canonical text”. CBDB id 59090.