Xie left teaching to join the Commercial Press, where he helped publish the first edition of the Ciyuan, released in 1915.

Xie later served as secretary to Yve Henry [zh], who invited him to study law at Aurora University in Shanghai.

In 1926, Xie was invited to join the Wuhan-based Nationalist government as a secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[7]: 8340  He continued serving as minister of justice until December 1948, when he was named the secretary-general of the Judicial Yuan.

[2][3][4][5] Xie retreated to Taiwan with other Nationalist government officials after the Kuomintang lost the Second Chinese Civil War.