Liú Qiú 劉球 (1392–1443), zì Qiúlè 求樂 (later changed to Tíngzhèn 廷振), hào Liǎngxī 兩谿, posthumous title (early Jǐngtài) Zhōngmǐn 忠愍. Native of Ānfú 安福 (Jíān, Jiāngxī). Yǒnglè xīnchǒu (1421) jìnshì; appointed Lǐbù zhǔshì 禮部主事; recommended by Yáng Shìqí 楊士奇 (楊士奇) to attend the jīngyán (imperial lectures); reassigned shìjiǎng 侍講. After offending the great eunuch Wáng Zhèn 王振 by frank memorial in Zhèngtǒng 8 (1443), thrown into the zhàoyù and dismembered to death by Wáng Zhèn’s confederate Mǎ Shùn 馬順. Posthumously gifted Hànlín xuéshì and rehabilitated in early Jǐngtài (1450–51) after the destruction of the Wáng Zhèn faction. Míng shǐ j. 162. Surviving works are KR4e0101 Liǎngxī wénjí (24 juǎn), edited 28 years after his death by his sons Liú Yuè 劉鉞 and Liú Yú 劉釪. CBDB id 34501 (1392–1443).