Lù Jí 陸楫 (1515–1552), zì Sīyù 思豫; native of Shànghǎi 上海 (Sōngjiāng prefecture). Son of 陸深 (Lù Shēn, 1477–1544), the eminent mid-Míng Grand Secretariat Drafter, calligrapher, and antiquarian. Held only minor office; Guózǐjiàn shēng (National University student). Best known for two contributions:
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Editor of his father’s collected works. Lù Jí compiled and printed his father’s Yǎnshān jí 儼山集 (100 juàn) plus a Xùjí 續集 in 10 juàn (KR4e0165), and edited the Yǎnshān wài jí 儼山外集 (KR3j0188) of the father’s bǐjì.
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Compiler of the Gǔ jīn shuō hǎi 古今說海 (KR3j0189) — the major mid-Míng cóngshū of xiǎoshuō, biographies, geographic and ethnographic literature, and chuánqí, in four sections (shuō xuǎn, shuō yuān, shuō luè, shuō zuǎn), preserving a wide range of TángSòngYuán texts.
His independent essay Jiàn lùn 賤論 (preserved in his collected works) is famous in modern Chinese economic-historical scholarship as a remarkably early Chinese argument for the social and economic value of luxury consumption — an early counterweight to the Confucian frugality tradition.