Yuán-period 元 literary scholar and educational official. Zì Zhìyǒu 志友; hào Fānggǔ 芳谷 (“Fragrant-Valley”). Native of Déxìng 德興 (Jiāngxī). CBDB 35399 records b. 1250; death-date uncertain.
Career.
- Zhì-yuán-era: Lóngxìng jiàoshòu 隆興教授
- Jiāngxī rúxué tíjǔ 江西儒學提舉
- Imperial envoy to An-nán 安南 (Annam, Vietnam)
- Examiner across Jiāngzhè, Húguǎng, and one further province
Notable contribution. As examiner, Xú recovered the great Yuán Confucian Huáng Jìn 黃溍 黃溍 (1277–1357) from among the luòjuǎn (failed examination scripts) — a single-instance editorial-rescue that gave the Yuán its greatest mid-Yuán Confucian-historian.
Collection. Fānggǔ jí KR4d0468 in 2 juàn — 120 pieces of prose; no poetry, no original prefaces. Note: the Sìkù editors detected the misattribution of three Dǒng Shìxuǎn imperial gàomìng drafts (composed by Yuán Míngshàn 元明善, a different figure) — these were removed from the Sìkù base.
Within the Kanripo corpus. KR4d0468 Fānggǔ jí 芳谷集 (撰).