Wáng Chāng 王昶 (zì Lánquán 蘭泉, hào Shùān 述菴, 1725–1806), one of the most senior mid-Qīng kǎojù scholars and Hànlín officials, of Qīngpǔ 青浦 (Shànghǎi). Jìnshì of Qiánlóng 19 (1754); bóxué hóngcí (1757); served as Vice-Minister of Punishments. A foundational mid-Qīng kǎojù figure: his Jīnshí cuìbiān 金石萃編 (1805) is one of the great Qīng epigraphic compilations, and his collected works Chūnróngtáng quánjí 春融堂全集 are an extensive scholarly corpus. In Jiāqìng 13 (1808), Wáng’s posthumously-published preface to 懷遠 Huáiyuǎn’s Gǔjīn yīchè 古今醫徹 (KR3er046) — composed in his old age and printed after his death — narrates his friendship with Huáiyuǎn in their youth before the MíngQīng cataclysm. Lifedates 1725–1806 are securely documented in Qīng official-biography records.