Lán Dǐngyuán 藍鼎元 (1680–1733), zì Yùlín 玉霖, hào Lùzhōu 鹿洲, of Zhāngpǔ 漳浦 in Fújiàn. Tribute student (gòngshēng 貢生) — never a jìnshì — who through his policy writing and frontier service rose to Magistrate of Pǔníng 普寧, then Magistrate of Cháoyáng 潮陽 (Guǎngdōng), and finally Prefect of Guǎngzhōu 廣州 (Guǎngzhōu zhīfǔ 廣州知府). Joined his elder brother Lán Tíngzhēn 藍廷珍 (Provincial Commander of Nán’ào 南澳) on the Taiwan expeditionary force that, with the Fújiàn Naval Brigade Commander Shī Shìbiāo 施世驃, recovered Taiwan from Zhū Yīguì 朱一貴 in seven days in the 4th month of Kāngxī 60 (1721); subsequently (when Shī died on campaign) shared the prosecution of the post-rebellion mopping-up and the policy reform that resulted in the establishment of Zhānghuà 彰化 county. Wrote the present Píngtái jìlüè 平臺紀略 (KR2c0023) on the campaign, the Dōngzhēng jí 東征集 (collected official documents from the operation, also appended), and the Lùzhōu chūjí 鹿洲初集 (cited in Wilkinson at p. 40767 for its statement of historiographical principles). Important for the early-Qing settler-colonial regime in Taiwan and for late-Kāngxī / Yōngzhèng frontier administration generally. CBDB (personid 65663) gives 1680–1733, in agreement with the catalog meta and Wilkinson.