Xie married Gao Yicha at the age of 20, then left for France, where he pursued legal studies at the University of Paris.

[1] Xie returned to China in 1924, joined the Kuomintang, and was offered a position on the faculty of law at National Guangdong University by school president Zou Lu [zh].

[1] The next year, Xie was named to positions within the Guangdong branch of the Kuomintang, working alongside Gu Ying-fen [zh].

Shortly after Xie was seated, he was named secretary general of the Taiwan Provincial Government, serving between 18 September 1947 and 20 July 1948.

After the death of Fu Bingchang, Xie succeeded him as vice president of the Judicial Yuan.