Liú Xù 劉昫
Zì Yàoyuǎn 耀遠. Native of Guīyì 歸義 in Zhuōzhōu 涿州 (modern Héběi). CBDB id 92667; lifedates 887–946 (per CBDB; catalog meta gives 887–946).
The principal Five-Dynasties statesman-historian. Career across Hòu-Tang 後唐 (923–937) and HòuJìn 後晉 (936–947). Held Hànlín xuéshì 翰林學士 from 932 under Hòu-Tang Mǐngzōng; Zhōngshū shìláng 中書侍郎 / Tóng zhōngshū ménxià píngzhāngshì 同中書門下平章事 (chief minister) from 936 under HòuJìn Gāozǔ Shí Jìngtáng; Sīkōng 司空 under HòuJìn Chūdì Shí Chónggǔi (940s); Shǒu sìtú jiānxiū guóshǐ 守司徒監修國史 from 940. Died in retirement at Xíngtái 邢臺 in 946.
His scholarly contribution rests almost entirely on his role as supervising editor (jiānxiū) of the Jiù Tángshū (KR2a0026) during the HòuJìn period. The actual chief compilers were Zhāng Zhāoyuǎn 張昭遠 and Jiǎ Wěi 賈緯, with editorial team Wáng Shēn 王伸, Liú Chōngbǎo 劉沖寶, and others; the work was compiled 941–945 and presented under Liú Xù’s name in Kāiyùn 2, 6th month (July 945). The work’s title-page attribution to Liú Xù is conventional — by the rule of the era, only the most senior official’s name was carried — and his editorial role was largely supervisory. The Wǔdài shǐ jì biography of Liú Xù does not mention this contribution.
His biographies are in Jiù Wǔdài shǐ 89 (KR2a0029) and Xīn Wǔdài shǐ 55 (KR2a0030).