Xuē Jūzhèng 薛居正
Zì Zǐpíng 子平; posthumous title Wénhuì 文惠. Native of Zhèngzhōu 鄭州 Kǎifēng 開封 (modern Hénán). CBDB id 799; lifedates 912–981.
Career across the late Hòu-Tang, HòuJìn, HòuHàn, HòuZhōu, and Sòng — five successive regimes of the late Five Dynasties / early Sòng transition. Jìnshì of the HòuJìn Tiānfú era (936–942). Held senior posts at every court he served: under HòuZhōu, Zhōngshū shèrén 中書舍人 and Hànlín shìjiǎng 翰林侍講; under Sòng Tàizǔ, Tóng zhōngshū ménxià píngzhāngshì 同中書門下平章事 (chief minister) from 973, Zhōngshū lìng 中書令, Zhāowénguǎn dàxuéshì 昭文館大學士. Died in officio in 981 at age 70 (poisoned, according to one tradition, by accidental ingestion of a Daoist alchemical preparation).
Scholarly contributions: chief supervising editor (jiānxiū) of the Jiù Wǔdài shǐ (KR2a0029) under imperial commission of Sòng Tàizǔ; the work was completed in 18 months (Kāibǎo 6/4 to Kāibǎo 7/10閏 = April 973 to November 974) with Lú Duōxùn 盧多遜, Hù Méng 扈蒙, Zhāng Dàn 張澹, Lǐ Fǎng 李昉, Liú Jiān 劉兼, Lǐ Mù 李穆, and Lǐ Jiǔlíng 李九齡 as the working compilers. By the convention of the era, the work was published under Xuē Jūzhèng’s name as the senior editor.
His biography is in Sòngshǐ 264 (KR2a0032).