Ch'en

plural Ch'ens · alternative Chen

1. A surname from Mandarin.

   In the course of this ‘Second Anti-Rightist Campaign’ (Erh-tz’u fan-yu), Ch’en Yün’s authority was considerably restricted, and the Vice-Premier and Secretary General of the State Council, Hsi Chung-hsün (member of the CC), was dismissed.

   1973 [1971], Jürgen Domes, “Opposition and 'Readjustment'”, in Rüdiger Machetzki, transl., The Internal Politics of China, 1949–1972, Praeger Publishers, translation of Die Ära Mao Tse-tung (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117

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   Later CH'EN Ch'eng obtained permission for YEH to reside with him in En-shih, Hupeh on the personal responsibility of CH'EN; but soon after YEH and his family arrived CH'EN Ch'eng's new command in western Yunnan made it impossible for CH'EN himself to reside at En-shih. Thereupon CH'EN suggested to CHANG Fa-k'uei, a friend of YEH's, that the latter move with his family to Kwangsi.

   1952, Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session on the Institute of Pacific Relations, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 2474

   Many Hakka on the Pingtung plain who bear the surname Ch’en and trace their origins to Chiaying chou in Kwangtung are genealogically divided into several hu, or sublineages. Most of Tatieh's Ch’en belong to a sublineage known as Nan-shan, or “South Mountain.” As in the case of Hsü, Nan-shan Ch’en living in various villages were united by the creation of two ancestral trusts with headquarters in Chutien township.

   1972, Burton Pasternak, “Kinship”, in Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76

   P’eng P’ai was able to return to Hai-feng county on the heels of the Eastern Expedition at the end of February 1925 and to revive his shattered movement there. Membership grew rapidly to a reported 70,000, with 12,000 in neighbouring Lu-feng county, but Ch’en Chiung-ming’s troops recovered these counties in the summer and again the movement was driven underground.

   1983, C. Martin Wilbur, “The Nationalist Revolution: from Canton to Nanking, 1923–28”, in John K. Fairbank, editor, The Cambridge History of China, volume 12, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 543–544

   The leaders of the local faction carve out their own bailiwicks along administrative subdivisions. In Lingya District, for example, there are three large families, the Wangs, the Ch’ens and the Fangs. The Wang family consists of former Mayor Wang Yu-yun and his brothers. The Ch'en family is run by Ch'en Ch'i-ch'uan, and the Fang family is represented by Fang Ch'i-jung, currently an LY delegate and formerly a great landlord in Lingya District.

   1983 December 8 [1983 March], Huai-fu [0657 2037 1133] Ku, “A Roster of Candidates for the Supplementary Legislative Yuan Elections”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 479, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49

   The second is a hagiographic account of the Ch’üan-chen hierarchy from the original patriarchs down to the four generations preceding Ch’en: (1) Sung Te-fang 宋德方 (1183-1247) of Mien-yang 沔陽 (Hupeh), disciple of both Ma Yü and Ch’iu Ch’u-chi, and the editor-in-chief of the 1244 Canon; (2) Li Chüeh 李珏 of Ch’ung-ch’ing 崇慶^([sic – meaning 重慶]) (Szechwan); (3) Chang Mo 張謨 of Jao-chou 饒州 (Kiangsi); and (4) Chao Yu-ch’in 趙友欽, who instructed Ch’en at Heng-yang 衡陽 (Hunan) in 1329.

   1987, Judith M. Boltz, A Survey of Taoist Literature Tenth to Seventh Centuries, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016, pages 185–186