Wang Yucheng

{{Short description|Chinese poet}}

Wang Yucheng (or Yu-Ch'eng) (王禹偁, 954–1001) was a Chinese poet from Juye in the Shandong province during the Song dynasty. He served in a government post and was known for forthright criticism of policies; this led to his eventual banishment to the South.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

His text Jianlong yishi (建隆遺事), discussed by historian Li Tao in Xu zizhi tongjian changbian (續資治通鑑長編), is no longer extant.{{Cite journal |last=Lorge |first=Peter |date=2013 |title=Sima Guang on Song Taizong: Politics, History and Historiograph |journal=Journal of Song-Yuan Studies |volume=42 |pages=5–43 |doi=10.1353/sys.2013.0018}}

The book Wang Yucheng yanjiu (王禹偁研究) by Huang Chi-fang of National Taiwan University examines the development of Song-era guwen.{{Cite journal |last=Lee |first=Chen-hui |last2=Huang |first2=Yi-jen |date=2020 |others=Translated by Douglas Skonicki |title=Recent Taiwanese Scholarship on Song Dynasty Poetry and Prose |journal=Journal of Song-Yuan Studies |volume=49 |pages=455–476 |doi=10.1353/sys.2020.0011}}