Féng Bān 馮班 (1614–1671), zì Dìngyuǎn 定遠, hào Dùn yín jūshì 鈍吟居士 (“Dull-Chanter”). Native of Chángshú 常熟, Jiāngsū (with ancestral place at Shàngdǎng 上黨, Shānxī). Older brother of Féng Shū 馮舒. Uncle of Féng Wǔ 馮武 (his nephew and posthumous editor).
A late-Míng / early-Qīng poet and critic of the Yúshān (Chángshú) school. Took zhūshēng (licentiate) qualification but no higher degree. After the Manchu conquest, refused to serve the Qīng. He is the foundational early-Qīng opponent of Yán Yǔ 嚴羽’s Cāngláng shī huà poetics — his polemic Yán shì jiū miù 嚴氏糾繆 (in KR3j0191) launched the controversy that culminated in the Tán lóng lù dispute between his disciple Zhào Zhíxìn 趙執信 and Wáng Shìzhēn (see Wáng’s Fēngān yúhuà KR3j0165 for the counter-attack). His writings were gathered after his death by his nephew Féng Wǔ in the Dùn yín zá lù 鈍吟雜錄 (KR3j0191). Also wrote a Dùn yín shū yào 鈍吟書要 on calligraphy and the Dùn yín jí 鈍吟集 (collected poetry).
Treated extensively in Richard John Lynn’s studies of early-Qīng poetics and in Jiǎng Yīn’s Wáng Yúyáng yǔ Qīngchū shītán.