Liú Shíjǔ 劉時擧
Late-Southern-Sòng historian. Zì and origin unrecorded; not in CBDB. The Sìkù tíyào (under KR2b0026) explicitly notes that “his place of origin is not investigated”; what is recoverable is only that he held the office of Tōngzhí láng hùbù jiàgé Guóshǐ Shílùyuàn jiǎntǎo jiān biānxiū guān 通直郎戶部架閣國史實錄院檢討兼編修官, that is, an editorial position in the Guó shǐ (National History) and Shí lù (Veritable Records) bureaus.
The independent biographical witness is in the anonymous Sòng jì sān cháo zhèng yào (KR2b0031), which records that when Shǐ Sōngzhī’s father died and he left the chancellorship, then was recalled by edict as Yòuchéngxiàng in mourning, Liú Shíjǔ as a Lǐn xué shēng (school-stipendiary student) joined Wáng Yuányě, Huáng Dào and ninety-four others in vigorously remonstrating against the recall. This places his floruit in the late Lǐzōng era, Chúnyòu / Bǎoyòu period — that is, fl. roughly 1240–1260.
His sole surviving work is the Xù Sòng biānnián zī zhì tōng jiàn 續宋編年資治通鑑 (KR2b0026) in 15 juǎn — a Southern-Sòng chronicle from Gāozōng Jiànyán 1 / 1127 to Níngzōng Jiādìng 17 / 1224. The closing argument-paragraph (“the Lǐzōng braced the polity for fifty years and then it fell”) is post-Sòng and is, per the Sìkù editors, a Yuán-period book-house addition.