Late-Yuán military official and poet of Tangut (XīXià) descent. Style-name Yòngwén 用文; sobriquet Yǒushí shānrén 友石山人 (“Friend-of-Stone Mountain Man”). His forebears, originally from the Western Xià, came east with the Yuán armies into the JiāngHuái region and were granted hereditary command of one thousand troops at Lúzhōu 廬州; he inherited the post. He rose through the Yuán provincial bureaucracy of Jiāngxī and Fújiàn to become lángzhōng of the Mobile Secretariat, then served in the staff of the late-Yuán Fújiàn warlord Chén Yǒudìng 陳友定, who memorialized to make him zǒngguǎn (general administrator) of Cháozhōu and concurrent supervisor of Xún, Méi and Huì circuits. After Chén’s defeat by the Míng (1368) Wáng went to sea and reached Annam without making landfall, then returned and lived in retreat at Guānlièshān 觀獵山 in Yǒngfú 永福, wearing Daoist priestly dress for eleven years. In the early Hóngwǔ era, when a second Míng summons to office came, he entrusted his small son Wáng Chēng 王偁 to his friend Wú Hǎi 吳海 and took his own life to preserve Yuán loyalty. His final verses, included in his collection, explicitly invoke the act. His son Wáng Chēng later compiled his surviving poetry as Yǒushí shānrén yígǎo 友石山人遺稿 (KR4d0551).
王翰 is one of the relatively well documented Tangut-descent literati of the late Yuán, and a major test-case in studies of Yuán-loyalist zìjué (self-determination) suicides.
Wáng Hàn 王翰 (Míng, fl. c. 1370s–early 15th c.), zì Shíjǔ 時舉, native of Yǔzhōu 禹州 (Hénán). Distinct from the Tangut-descent Yuán-loyalist Wáng Hàn above. Late-Yuán hermit in Zhōngtiáoshān 中條山. Emerged in the early Míng as chángshǐ 長史 of the Zhōuwáng 周王 (the Princely Establishment of Zhōu at Kāifēng, under Zhū Sù 朱橚, Hóngwǔ’s fifth son). When the prince showed treasonous intent, remonstrated upright but was not heeded; duànzhǐ yángkuáng (cut off his finger and feigned madness) and left. The prince’s plot was discovered (likely in connection with the Yǒnglè 1 / 1402–3 charges against Zhū Sù); Wáng was not implicated. Subsequently employed as Hànlínyuàn biānxiū 翰林院編修; demoted to Liánzhōu jiàoshòu 廉州教授 (Guǎngxī, on the Beibu Gulf coast); died when Liánzhōu fell to a yíliáo 夷獠 (aboriginal-southern) uprising. The affair is recorded in Míng shǐ Zhōuwáng zhuàn. His collection KR4e0065 Liángyuán yùgǎo 梁園寓稿 in nine juǎn survives in the WYG transmission; the Bìzhǒu jí 敝帚集 (5 juǎn) and Shānlín qiáochàng 山林樵唱 (1 juǎn) recorded in the Míngshǐ Yìwén zhì are lost. Catalog correction note: the KR4e0065 catalog meta records 王翰 as 1333–1379, but this is the lifespan of the homonymous Tangut Wáng Hàn (CBDB 35495, above); the present Yǔzhōu Wáng Hàn is a different person whose career chronology places him well into the early 15th century. No firm CBDB match.