Wáng Shù 王恕 (1416–1508), zì Zōngguàn 宗貫, hào Jièān 介菴, posthumous Duānyì 端毅, was a senior Míng official of unusual longevity (92 years) and tenure (45 years in active service) from Sānyuán 三原 (modern Shǎnxī). He passed the jìnshì in Zhèngtǒng 13 (1448) and rose through Dàlǐsì zuǒsìfù 大理寺左寺副, Xúnfǔ Jīngxiāng Hénán 巡撫荊襄河南, Nánjīng xíngbù, Nánjīng hùbù, Zǒnglǐ Hédào 總理河道, Xúnfǔ Yúnnán, Cānzàn jīwù 參贊機務, Xúnfǔ Nánzhí, and finally Lǐbù shàngshū 吏部尚書 — i.e. the senior personnel office of the realm — in the Hóngzhì period (1488–1494).
Wáng was famous in his own time as the most outspoken senior official of his age. The Míng bìjì writer Liú Chāng 劉昌 reckoned that Wáng submitted “more than three thousand memorials in his 45-year career”; the surviving Wáng duānyì gōng zòuyì (KR2f0018) in 15 juàn preserves only a winnowed selection. He was particularly known for impeachments of garrison eunuchs and for blunt criticism of the Court Eunuch service.
His one famous public quarrel — with the senior scholar Qiū Jùn 邱濬 (1421–1495), recorded both in the Míng shǐ and in Shěn Défú’s 沈德符 Gùqǔ záyán — turned on Qiū’s authorship of the morally lax drama Wǔlún quánbèi 五倫全備 zájù. Wáng said that a Confucian scholar of Qiū’s stature should not be wasting time on dramatic verse; Qiū took permanent offence. The court physician Liú Wéntài 劉文泰 then attacked Wáng on Qiū’s behalf, and Wáng was forced into retirement in 1494. Wáng’s response was to publish his memorial-drafts including all the liúzhōng (suppressed-in-palace, never replied to) memorials of the Chénghuà period — embarrassing the previous emperor — for which the Míng shǐ judges him to have been “disregardful of the warning to keep one’s reputation in old age.”
His other surviving works include the Shíqú yìjiàn 石渠意見 (KR1d0124 in the Classics Division), short Classical-text reflections. Míng shǐ j. 182 has his biography. CBDB id 62505 (1416–1508), confirmed by Míng shǐ and Wikidata.