Xie Ju 謝舉

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · liangshu:036:s0045
• Sex: male
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0002, liangshu:037:s0003, liangshu:038:s0035

Roles

• Courtier
• Official
• Poet
• Scholar
• Statesman

Family

• Child of Xie Zhuang (謝莊)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather · Generation Distance: 2
• Child of Xie Yue (謝瀹)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Xie Xi (謝禧)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Xie Gu (謝嘏)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Sibling of Xie Lan (謝覽)
  Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full

• Kinship Role: sons · Count: 2
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0037

Career and standing

• Label: Right Vice Director of the Secretariat / 尚書右僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通五年 · Western Year: AD 533
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0021
• Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通四年 · Western Year: AD 532
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0020
• Label: Cloud-Banner General and Governor of Wu / 雲麾將軍、吳郡太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同三年 · Western Year: AD 537
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0023
• Label: Right Master of the Imperial Household / 右光祿大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同三年 · Western Year: AD 537
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0022
• Label: Vice Director of the Secretariat / 尚書僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同九年 · Western Year: AD 543
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0028
• Label: Palace Attendant and Director of the Palace Secretariat / 侍中、中書監 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同六年 · Western Year: AD 540
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0026
• Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary and Minister of the Five Armies / 侍中、五兵尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通二年 · Western Year: AD 528
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0116
• Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十一年 · Western Year: AD 512
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0104
• Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary, concurrently Infantry Colonel / 侍中，領步兵校尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十八年 · Western Year: AD 519
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0106
• Label: General Who Pacifies the Distant and Interior Minister of Yuzhang / 寧遠將軍、豫章內史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十四年 · Western Year: AD 515
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0105
• Label: Director of the Secretariat / 尚書令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清二年 · Western Year: AD 548
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0033
• Label: General of Benevolent Awe and administrator of Jinling / 仁威將軍、晉陵太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Western Year: AD 525
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0113
• Label: Household Attendant to the Crown Prince, concurrently General of the Right Army / 太子中庶子，領右軍將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通五年 · Western Year: AD 524
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0110
• Label: General of Firm Resoluteness and chief clerk to the Prince of Linchuan / 貞毅將軍、太尉臨川王長史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通元年 · Western Year: AD 520
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0107
• Label: Minister of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通六年 · Western Year: AD 525
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0112
• Label: Minister of the Left People, concurrently Infantry Colonel / 左民尚書，領步兵校尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通六年 · Western Year: AD 525
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0111
• Label: Minister of the Left People / 左民尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通四年 · Western Year: AD 523
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0108
• Label: Ministry of Personnel / 吏部 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通四年 · Western Year: AD 523
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0109
• Label: Secretariat gentleman / 秘书郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0008
• Office: Vice Director of the Secretariat / 尚書僕射 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 547
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:038:s0035
• Label: Palace Attendant, Central Guard General, and Grand Honorific with the Three Insignia / 侍中、中衛將軍、開府儀同三司 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清二年 · Western Year: AD 548
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0035
• Status: dismissal · Action: dismissed · Label: dismissed over an official matter / 以公事免 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通四年 · Western Year: AD 523
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0109

Places and affiliations

• Label: Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0003, liangshu:037:s0104
• Place: Wu Commandery / 吳郡 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同三年 · Western Year: AD 537
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0023
• Place: Yuzhang / 豫章 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十四年 · Western Year: AD 515
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0105
• Place: Jinling / 晉陵 · Relation: posted-to
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0113, liangshu:037:s0015

Learning and skills

• Belief: Buddhism / 釋氏 · Relation: student-of
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0014, liangshu:037:s0015
• Skill: metaphysics and Buddhist teaching / 玄理及釋氏義 · Level: excelled
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0014
• Skill: pure conversation / 清言 · Level: renowned
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0004

Works and attributed material

• Work: collected works / 文集 · Relation: author · Negated: false
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0036
• Kind: policy advice · Role: opponent · Action: opposed accepting Hou Jing · Other Person Id: Hou Jing (侯景) · Provenance: Mode: reported-position · Speaker Person Id: Xie Ju (謝舉)
  Explicit · liangshu:038:s0035
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)
  Explicit · liangshu:036:s0047
• Kind: speech · Role: subject-of-praise · Other Person Id: Xie Lan (謝覽)
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0011

Events and relationships

• Kind: military-siege · Role: victim · Action: died-in-siege · Other Person Id: Hou Jing (侯景) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清二年 · Western Year: AD 548
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0034
• Kind: scholarly · Role: debater · Action: refuted · Other Person Id: Lu Guang (盧廣) · Label: overturned Lu Guang in debate / 屢折廣
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0018, liangshu:037:s0019
• Kind: loss · Role: author · Action: works-lost-in-upheaval · Label: collected works perished in the upheaval / 文集亂中並亡逸
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0036

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: governance comparable to He Jingrong in Wu · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0025
• Assessment: learning and skill far exceed Xie Lan · Provenance: Mode: named-speech · Speaker Person Id: Xie Lan (謝覽)
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0011

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · liangshu:037:s0002, liangshu:037:s0003