Guō Xiù 郭琇 (1638–1715), zì Huáyě 華野, was a Qīng remonstrance official who became famous for his impeachment of the senior Manchu Grand Secretary Míngzhū 明珠 and the Hàn Grand Secretary Wáng Hóngxù 王鴻緒 — the most consequential central-government impeachment of the early-Kāngxī period. From Jímò 即墨 (modern Shāndōng), he passed the jìnshì in Kāngxī gēngxū 康熙庚戌 (1670) and entered office as Wújiāng zhīxiàn 吳江知縣. Recommended through xíngqǔ (calling-up) into the Censorate, he immediately impeached Míngzhū, Wáng Hóngxù, and others; Shèngzǔ Rénhuángdì (Kāngxī) commended him for gǎnyán (daring to speak), promoted him to Zuǒ qiān dū yùshǐ and then Zuǒ dū yùshǐ — the apex of the censorial system.
A subsequent matter brought him a demotion (juānzhì 鐫秩), but he was again promoted to Húguǎng zǒngdū 湖廣總督 (Governor-General of Húběi-Húnán). After four years in this office he was again deprived of office over the hóng-Miáo 紅苗 raid affair (the Bēnbúluò 賁普羅 indigenous raid in western Húnán) and returned home — where he died in 1715, aged 78.
The Sìkù tíyào emphasizes the Shèngzǔ Rénhuángdì’s impartial use-and-dismissal as the lesson of Guō’s case: “When his impeachments hit the truth, he was promoted in honour of his loyalty; when he caused harm at the frontier, he was dismissed in respect of his fault. We see the great-public, single-judgement of Shèngzǔ Rénhuángdì in personnel and rule.” When the Wǔcháo guóshǐ lièzhuàn 五朝國史列傳 was compiled, the emperor specifically commanded that Guō’s full impeachment-memorials be preserved in the Míngzhū and Wáng Hóngxù biographies — making clear that Guō’s later dismissal was not retaliation by their faction but a separate matter.
His memorials are preserved in the KR2f0036 Huáyě shūgǎo 華野疏稿 in 5 juàn (44 memorials, Kāngxī 27 to 41 = 1688 to 1702), edited by his descendants. The Sìkù editors specifically prefixed the imperial yùzhǐ (commanding the impeachment-memorials’ inclusion in the official biographies) at the head of the work as evidence of the imperial endorsement. Qīng shǐ gǎo j. 270 has his biography. CBDB id 65953 (1638–1715).