Wáng È 王鶚 (1190–1273), zì Bóyì 伯翼, was a JīnYuán transition Confucian official and historiographer from Dōngmíng 東明 (in modern Shāndōng). In Jīn Zhèngdà 正大 1 (1224) he took first place at the jìnshì — the zhuàngyuán of the late Jīn — and rose under Āizōng 哀宗 to Vice Director of the Left-and-Right Bureaus (zuǒ yòu sī yuán wàiláng 左右司員外郎). He accompanied Āizōng in the dynasty’s final retreat to Cài 蔡州 (Rǔnán) and witnessed the dynasty’s collapse and Āizōng’s suicide in the first month of Tiānxīng 3 (1234) — recorded in his eyewitness Rǔnán yíshì 汝南遺事 KR2e0017. Captured by the Mongols, he was taken into Yuán service; he served as a tutor and adviser to Khubilai khan and rose to Hànlín Academy Recipient of Edicts (hànlín xuéshì chéngzhǐ 翰林學士承旨), the highest civilian historiographical office in the early Yuán court. He was a key advocate for the formal Yuán compilation of the Liáo, Jīn, and Sòng official histories — though that project would only be carried through generations later under Tuōtuō 脫脫 — and one of the founding figures of the early-Yuán Hànlín establishment. His record is in the Yuánshǐ (juǎn 160). The Sìkù compilers are nuanced about his transitional service: they note that “he could not maintain the integrity of the Western-Mountain school” but praise the temperate, sorrowful tone of his loyalist Rǔnán yíshì and his recorded sacrificial offering to Āizōng. Other works: Rǔnán yílǎo 汝南遺老 (literary collection, largely lost) and contributions to the early-Yuán institutional drafts.