Wáng Mào 王楙 (1151–1213), zì Miǎnfū 勉夫, self-styled Yěkè 野客 (“the rustic guest”); contemporaries called him Jiǎngshūjūn 講書君 (“Master of Book-Lecturing”). Of Chángzhōu 長洲 (modern Sūzhōu, Jiāngsū). CBDB id 10342. Native-place attestations include Wúxiàn 吳縣 and Wújiāng 吳江, both within the Sūzhōu metropolitan area.
Wáng Mào never sat for the jìnshì examinations. Out of devotion to his mother he declined office and lived in scholarly retirement, spending his days reading and composing. His one surviving major work is the Yěkè cóngshū 野客叢書 (30 juan, with the appended Yělǎo jì wén 野老紀聞 in 1 juan, which preserves his father’s notes), one of the principal antiquarian bǐjì of the Southern Sòng. The first preface is dated Qìngyuán 1 (1195); a second author’s note is dated Jiātài 2 (1202); both are written from his Chángzhōu studio, Bùqī táng 不欺堂 (“Hall of Not-Self-Deception”). The work circulated in the Bǎoyán táng mìjí 寶顏堂秘笈 of Chén Jìrú 陳繼儒 in a heavily abridged 12-juan version; the Sìkù editors restored the full 30-juan recension and pointedly rejected Chén’s text.
Within the Kanripo corpus he is the author of KR3j0045 Yěkè cóngshū 野客叢書. He is referenced in the Sìkù tíyào as a critic of Hóng Mài’s 洪邁 Róngzhāi suíbǐ 容齋隨筆.