Xiè Guìhuá 謝桂華 (1938–2006), modern Chinese historian and epigrapher specializing in Han dynasty bamboo and wooden slip (jiǎndú 簡牘) documents. Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology (Kāogǔ suǒ 考古所), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. One of the leading figures of 20th-century hànjianology in mainland China.
Xiè is best known as co-editor (with 李均明 Lǐ Jūnmíng) of the Jūyán Hànjian shìwén héjiào 居延漢簡釋文合校 (Collated Transcriptions of the Juyan Han Bamboo Slips; Wenwu, 1987, 2 vols.), long the authoritative corrected-transcription edition of the 11,000 bamboo and wooden slips unearthed at Juyan 居延 in 1930–31 by Folke Bergman on the Sino-Swedish Expedition (now held at Academia Sinica, Taipei). This edition (KR5a0332) superseded Láo Gān’s 勞幹 Shiyusuo transcriptions and the Kaogu suo Jiǎyǐ biān 甲乙編 (1980), and remained the standard reference for two decades before being supplemented by infrared-image-based editions (Shiyusuo, 2014–19).
His dates (1938–2006) are given in Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, §59.7.2.1.