Guō Xiù 郭琇 (1638–1715), zì Huáyě 華野, was a Qīng remonstrance official who became famous for his impeachment of the senior Manchu Grand Secretary Míngzhū 明珠 and the Hàn Grand Secretary Wáng Hóngxù 王鴻緒 — the most consequential central-government impeachment of the early-Kāngxī period. From Jímò 即墨 (modern Shāndōng), he passed the jìnshì in Kāngxī gēngxū 康熙庚戌 (1670) and entered office as Wújiāng zhīxiàn 吳江知縣. Recommended through xíngqǔ (calling-up) into the Censorate, he immediately impeached Míngzhū, Wáng Hóngxù, and others; Shèngzǔ Rénhuángdì (Kāngxī) commended him for gǎnyán (daring to speak), promoted him to Zuǒ qiān dū yùshǐ and then Zuǒ dū yùshǐ — the apex of the censorial system.
A subsequent matter brought him a demotion (juānzhì 鐫秩), but he was again promoted to Húguǎng zǒngdū 湖廣總督 (Governor-General of HúběiHúnán). After four years in this office he was again deprived of office over the hóngMiáo 紅苗 raid affair (the Bēnbúluò 賁普羅 indigenous raid in western Húnán) and returned home — where he died in 1715, aged 78.
The Sìkù tíyào emphasizes the Shèngzǔ Rénhuángdì’s impartial use-and-dismissal as the lesson of Guō’s case: “When his impeachments hit the truth, he was promoted in honour of his loyalty; when he caused harm at the frontier, he was dismissed in respect of his fault. We see the great-public, single-judgement of Shèngzǔ Rénhuángdì in personnel and rule.” When the Wǔcháo guóshǐ lièzhuàn 五朝國史列傳 was compiled, the emperor specifically commanded that Guō’s full impeachment-memorials be preserved in the Míngzhū and Wáng Hóngxù biographies — making clear that Guō’s later dismissal was not retaliation by their faction but a separate matter.
His memorials are preserved in the KR2f0036 Huáyě shūgǎo 華野疏稿 in 5 juàn (44 memorials, Kāngxī 27 to 41 = 1688 to 1702), edited by his descendants. The Sìkù editors specifically prefixed the imperial yùzhǐ (commanding the impeachment-memorials’ inclusion in the official biographies) at the head of the work as evidence of the imperial endorsement. Qīng shǐ gǎo j. 270 has his biography. CBDB id 65953 (1638–1715).