Xiè Jí 謝伋 (fl. 1141)
Zì Jǐngsī 景思; self-styled Língshíshān yàoliáo 靈石山藥寮 (“Herb-Cottage of Língshí Mountain”). Native of Shàngcài 上蔡 in modern Hénán (origin claim: Yángxià 陽夏, an antique designation for the Shàngcài region). Son of Xiè Kèjiā 謝克家 (1063–1134), jìnshì of Yuánfú 3 (1100), who rose under Gāozōng to Cānzhèng 參政 (vice-minister) of the State Council; great-nephew (從孫) of Xiè Liángzuǒ 謝良佐 (1050–1103), the Neo-Confucian scholar known as the Shàngcài xiānshēng 上蔡先生 and one of the Four Disciples of the Chéng brothers — the Xiāoyáo gōng 逍遙公 to whom the Sìliù tán zhǔ refers throughout.
Xiè Jí rose in office to Tàicháng shàoqīng 太常少卿 (Vice-Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices). The catalog meta gives fl. 1141, the date of the preface to his Sìliù tán zhǔ 四六談麈 (KR4i0027). His one surviving work is that book. The note “山居厯年飽食終日” (years of mountain residence, having my fill and idle through the day) in his own preface places him in retirement at Língshí mountain by Shàoxīng 11 (1141), when the preface was written.
CBDB id 726 is the standard reference; no birth or death dates are recorded.