Jiǎ Yì 賈誼 (200–168 BCE) was a native of Luòyáng 洛陽 and the most celebrated literary-political prodigy of the early Western Hàn. Recommended at twenty by the governor of Hénán Wú Gōng 吳公, he rose under Wéndì 文帝 to bóshì 博士 and Grandee Remonstrant (tàizhōng dàfū 太中大夫), then was sent — under pressure from senior ministers Zhōu Bó 周勃 and Guàn Yīng 灌嬰 — to be tutor (tàifù 太傅) to the King of Chángshā 長沙王 in 174 BCE; recalled later to be tutor to the King of Liáng 梁王 Liú Yī 劉揖, he died at thirty-three after Liú Yī’s accidental death in a riding fall, conventionally said to be of grief. His prose memorials (the Guò Qín lùn 過秦論, the “Zhì’ān cè” 治安策 and the “Zòng yán jī” 縱言疾, all transmitted within the Hàn shū biography, j. 48), and the fù “Diào Qū Yuán” 弔屈原 and “Fú niǎo” 鵩鳥, are foundational pieces of Hàn court literary-political prose. His Xīnshū 新書 (KR3a0005) is the surviving compilation of his prose. CBDB does not contain him.