Wèi Bó 衞博 (Sòng, fl. 1168)
A senior Southern-Sòng literary draftsman of the early-Lóng-xīng era. The single firmly-dated point in his career: in Qiándào 4 (1168) 1st month he was Shūmìyuàn biānxiūguān (Editing Functionary of the Privy Council), retiring in the 4th month of the same year (per the Sòng zhōngxìng bǎiguān tímíng jì).
No Sòngshǐ biography. Zì, hào, native place, and lifedates not preserved. Once participated in a military mùfǔ (headquarters) on the HuáiSì frontier (per the internal evidence of his Sòng Yáng Shūzhōu shī: “Wǒ xī huái jūnshū / Xīxíng jìn HuáiSì”).
His career interest is documentary: virtually his entire surviving corpus KR4d0241 consists of dàicǎo (drafts-on-behalf-of-others) — the senior literary-draftsman / ghost-writing role for the great names of the early-Lóng-xīng era. The Sìkù editors identify the named recipients: Huáng Zǔshùn 黄祖舜, Yáng Cúnzhōng 楊存中, and senior chief ministers Wèi Qǐ 魏杞, Yè Yóng 葉顒, Hóng Zūn 洪遵, Zhōu Kuí 周葵, and Jiǎng Fú 蔣芾. His prose-style is in the line of Wāng Zǎo 汪藻 and Sūn Dí 孫覿.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0241 Dìngān lèigǎo (4 juǎn, WYG; reconstructed from the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn).