Late-Yuán to early-Míng poet of Jiāngyīn 江陰 (Sūnánsōngjiāng area). Style-name Yuánjí 原吉; self-styled Xímào shānrén 席帽山人 (“Hat-Mat Mountain Man”). In the Zhìzhèng era he was recommended for office and refused; he fled war south of the Sūngjiāngjiāng and built a residence at Wūníjīng on the Shànghǎi side. When Zhāng Shìchéng was occupying the Sūzhōu region, virtually all the literati of the southeast served under him, but Wáng alone stayed aloof. In the early Hóngwǔ a Míng summons pressed him urgently; he again refused, citing age and illness. As a youth he had studied poetry under Chén Hànqīng 陳漢卿, receiving in turn the jiāfǎ of Yú Jí 虞集 (Yú Yòufù). His Wúxī jí 梧溪集 (KR4d0564) appended characteristic small xù (forewords) before individual poems documenting the zhōngxiào jiéyì (loyalty and integrity) cases of the late-Sòng / Yuán transition — material that supplemented the standard histories. The collection’s transmission was very thin until Wáng Shìzhēn 王士禎 commissioned Yáng Míngshí 楊名時 to seek out the late-Míng Jiāngyīn elder Zhōu Róngqǐ’s 周榮起 holograph copy and have it widely re-cut. Zhōu Róngqǐ was a six-script (liùshū) specialist and a major editor of the Máo Jìn 毛晉 Jígǔ gé prints.