Gāo Kàng 高閌
Style name Yìchóng 抑崇. Native of Yínxiàn 鄞縣 in Mìngzhōu 明州 (modern Níngbō 寧波, Zhèjiāng). Southern-Sòng Chūnqiū commentator and senior court official; lifedates 1097–1153 per CBDB. The catalog meta does not include lifedates; the SKQS tíyào (under KR1e0037) gives no dates either, but CBDB has them as 1097–1153.
In the Shàngshè xuǎn 上舍選 of Shàoxīng 1 (1131) was awarded the jìnshì degree (an unusual route, via the Imperial Academy upper-hall examination rather than the regular metropolitan exam). Held a series of court posts including Tàixué 太學 erudite, Lǐbù shìláng 禮部侍郎 (Vice Minister of Rites), and Hóngwénguǎn xuéshì 弘文館學士.
Politically, Gāo’s career was complicated by his relationship to the appeasement chancellor Qín Guì 秦檜. Qín initially favoured him as a like-minded Confucian instructor at the Tàixué, but later came to suspect him of having recommended the anti-appeasement scholar Zhāng Jiǔchéng 張九成 (1092–1159). Qín demoted him to the Yúnzhōu 筠州 prefectship; Gāo refused to take up the post and retired to Yínxiàn for years, devoting his late energies to Chūnqiū scholarship. The Sòng shǐ rúlín zhuàn gives him a full biography. Lóu Yuè 樓鑰 (1137–1213) wrote the preface to his Chūnqiū jí zhù and supplies more biographical detail than the Sòng shǐ: “through straightforward speech he antagonised the dominant minister; once dismissed, he never returned.”
His one surviving work is the Gāoshì Chūnqiū jí zhù 高氏春秋集註 (KR1e0037), 14 juan in original (now 40 in Sìkù recovery). Methodologically a Chéng-school work, taking Chéng Yí’s Chūnqiū zhuàn as base while supplementing with TángSòng eclectic selections.
CBDB id 10224.