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290 Hsieh Fang  Died A.D. 25. A scholar who flourished under the Emperor Ch^dng Ti. He was frequently urged to take oiBce, but wat deaf to the arguments even of Wang Kang who went to fetch him in a comfortably-padded chariot. He was finally allowed to devote himself to teaching and composing poetry, until the accession of the Emperor Euang Wu Ti who again summoned him to Court. He died on the way thither.

Hsieh Fang-tê (T. # gf . H. J^ tU ). A.D. 1226- 1280. A native of ^ ^ I-yang in Eiangsi, distinguished as a poet. He graduated as chin shih about 1253 and entered upon a public career, but got into trouble when holding the post of Examiner by setting an unpopular theme, and was degraded. In 1275 ho guaranteed the loyalty of his friend g ^$ ^ L^ Sl^^- k^uei who went over to the Mongols in the following year, and had to floe for his life. He wandered about for some time,^ supporting hiuiself by telling fortunes. At length he settled down in Fuhkien as a teacher. His name stood first of the 22 officials of the Sung dynasty recommended for employment under the new government by M^^M Ch'«ng W6u-hai in 1286; but he steadily declined to take ofllce, and when brought to Peking in 1289 refused all food and died.

Hsieh Fêng-tsu (T. ^ ^). A native of Shantung, who flk>uri8hed as an author during the 17th century. He wrote largely ou astronomy* adopting much from wesstem sources; also, on the coDserfatioii of the Yellow Rifer and of the Grand Ganal.

Hsieh Fu-ch'êng. Died A.D. 1894. A mative of Kiang9a« who graduated as oUa AUk ia 1367 and in 1884 became Taot'ai at Niugpo. Four yvars later he was promoted to be Jud^ of Huuan, and frost 1$$9 to 1393 he serred as Minister «> fi^Laad, VSnuK#> IMr«> <Ad Belgium « n^tumiag to China in 1394.

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