Yuán Zhì 袁袠 (1502–1547), zì Yǒngzhī 永之, hào Xūtái 胥臺, was a Mid-Míng Lǐxué-aligned official and remonstrative essayist of Wúxiàn 吳縣 (Sūzhōu, Jiāngsū). Jìnshì of Jiājìng bǐngxū (1526); rose to Guǎngxī tíxué qiānshì. His major work is the Shì wěi 世緯 (KR3a0095) — a sharply critical 20-篇 polemical essay-collection on the Mid-Míng court, including a notable Jù wěi 距偽 chapter against the late-Yáo-jiāng xīnxué faction’s drift into Buddhism. (Note: the Kanripo catalog meta gives the surname as 袁衮 — a typographical slip 衮 for 袠. The character 袠 (zhì) is specific and is the form preserved in the SKQS source itself; CBDB id 35261 also reads 袁袠. The catalog form is followed in alternate-names but corrected in the wikilink.)