Mid-Míng Sūzhōu literatus, painter, and bibliographer-anthologist. CBDB id 133136, dates 1508–1572. Zì Shūbǎo 叔寶. Native of Chángzhōu 長洲 (Sūzhōu, Jiāngsū). A poor scholar — without books of his own — he yóu Wénmén (sojourned at the gate of 文徵明 Wén Zhēngmíng), daily taking books from Wén’s shelves to read and producing hand-copied editions of rare texts. Zhū Yízūn’s Jìngzhìjū shīhuà describes him as “hand-copied rare books most copiously, not tiring in old age”.
His principal work is the KR4h0116 Wúdū wéncuì xùjí 吳都文粹續集 (56 juǎn, now extant in 54 juǎn; compiled c. 1560–1572), the maximalist mid-Míng regional documentary anthology of Sūzhōu prose — explicitly continuing Zhèng Hǔchén’s Sòng Wúdū wéncuì (KR4h0058). His son Qián Gōngfǔ 錢功父 continued the work after his death; the combined draft reportedly reached 300 juǎn at one point.
He is also known as a painter of the Wú school, working in Wén Zhēngmíng’s manner; his paintings are catalogued separately in art-historical reference works.