Xuē Huì 薛蕙 (1489–1541), zì Jūncǎi 君采, hào Xīyuán 西原, of Bózhōu 亳州 (Ānhuī). Took the jìnshì in Zhèngdé 9 (1514, 甲戌) and rose through Hànlín to Lìbù Kǎogōng sī lángzhōng 吏部考功司郎中 (Bureau Director of Merit Evaluations in the Board of Civil Office), the office from which his literary collection Kǎogōng jí KR4e0175 takes its name. He was caught up in the Dàlǐyì 大禮議 (Great Rites Controversy) of 1524: he composed a famous yì memorial opposing the Jiājìng emperor’s elevation of his natural father — for which he was tíngzhàng (caned at court) and dismissed. He returned to Bózhōu and devoted his remaining decades to philosophical and philological work. He was a vocal opponent of the Lǐ Mèngyáng / Hé Jǐngmíng HànWèi / shèngTáng archaist program, favouring a qīngxuē wǎnyuē (“crisp-pruned and tenderly restrained”) register modelled on JìnSòng old-style verse and the High-to-Mid Táng Qián Qǐ / Láng Shìyuán lyric voice. His Sìkù tíyào notes that after Yán Sōng 嚴嵩 (their tóngnián) seized power, Xuē excised every Yán-related piece from his collection — a biéjí editorial gesture much admired in the Sìkù. His other surviving work Yìjīng yuánzhǐ 易經原旨 is a Yì commentary.