Qián Yīběn 錢一本 (1539–1610), zì Guóruì 國瑞, hào Qǐxīn 啟新, was a late-Míng Yìjīng scholar and Dōnglín 東林 sympathizer from Wǔjìn 武進 (Chángzhōu 常州, Jiāngsū 江蘇). He passed the jìnshì examination in Wànlì guǐwèi 萬曆癸未 = 1583 and rose to Investigating Censor of the Fújiàn Circuit (Fújiàn dào jiānchá yùshǐ 福建道監察御史). After being dismissed for outspoken memorial-discourse, he returned home; in the early Tiānqǐ 天啟 reign he was posthumously honored as Vice Minister of the Court of the Imperial Stud (Tàipú sì qīng 太僕寺卿). His biography is in the Míng shǐ 明史.
His scholarship spans the Six Classics, with particular depth in the Yì; he was an associate of the Dōnglín circle in Wúxī 無錫 in his late years. The principal Yì work is the Xiàng xiàng guǎn jiàn 像象管見 (KR1a0104), composed over twenty-some years from his early career through the early Wànlì gēngzǐ years. The work explicitly rejects both the Hàn divinatory schools (Jīng Fáng 京房, Jiāo Yánshòu 焦延壽, Guǎn Lù 管輅, Guō Pú 郭璞) and the Sòng chart-tradition (Chén Tuán 陳摶, Lǐ Zhīcái 李之才), seeking instead to recover the original symbol-meaning (xiàng 象) of the canon and apply it to human affairs (rén shì 人事). The title’s two-character formula — xiàng 像 (to image) and xiàng 象 (the symbol) — derives from the Dàzhuàn’s xiàng yě zhě xiàng yě 象也者像也, “the symbol is what is imaged.”
Qián also wrote a Sì shū zōng zhǐ 四書宗旨 and other works.