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Rh CHAO Shih-lin 趙士麟, Apr. 30, 1629–1699, June 5, official, was a native of Ho-yang, Yunnan. He became a chin-shih in 1664 and thereupon was made police magistrate of P'ing-yüan, Kweichow. Four years later he became magistrate of Jung-ch'êng, Chihli, the birth-place of the philosopher,. There he remained for six years and established the Academy known as Chêng-hsüeh shu-yüan 正學書院. After occupying various posts in the capital he became in 1683 senior vice-president of the Censorate, during which period he sent up a memorial recommending that Formosa be organized under one prefecture and two districts—a plan that was adopted. In the spring of the following year he was made governor of Chekiang. During the twelve years of his administration that province made many improvements—schools were established, the taxation system was reformed, and water routes to facilitate transportation were opened.

It was once the practice for banner troops stationed in Chekiang to loan money to the local inhabitants at exhorbitantexorbitant [sic] rates of interest, causing social unrest and misery to the people. Chao Shih-lin refunded all the outstanding obligations from his own purse and then put a stop to the practice. At that time the population about Hangchow, was dense, and the custom of the inhabitants of building walls and fences made of bamboo, gave rise to frequent fires. Chao Shih-lin created a permanent fire squad of 200 men to remedy this situation. When he was transferred in 1686 to the governorship of Kiangsu the people of Chekiang had six pictures painted in commemoration of his good administration, and Mao Chi-k'o 毛際可, a prominent literary man of the province, wrote an essay in honor of the occasion. After three years in Kiangsu Chao Shih-lin was summoned to Peking to assist in the Board of War, and in 1691 was transferred to the senior vice-presidency of the Board of Civil Office. His collected literary works, in 46 chüan, were entitled 讀書堂集 Tu-shu t'ang chi. This title received notice in the Imperial Catalogue (see under ).

[1/281/2a; 3/52/28a; 4/19/1a; 續修雲南通志 (Hsü-hsiu) Yünnan t'ung-chih (1894) 170/9b.]

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 CHAO-tsu Yüan Huang-ti, temple and posthumous names of Mönge Temür. See under.

 CHÊ Huang-ti, posthumous name of [''q. v.''].

 CHÊN Huang-ti, posthumous name of [''q. v.''].

 CH'ÊN Chao-lun 陳兆崙, Jan. 14, 1701–1771, Mar. 12, man of letters and calligrapher, was a native of Ch'ien-t'ang, Chekiang. While still a young man he obtained recognition for his literary and calligraphic ability, and such eminent contemporaries of Chekiang province as and  were his friends. In 1722 a group of eighteen of these friends formed a literary society (文社) which held meetings on the shores of West Lake (西湖). A selection of essays written by this group was published in the same year, under the title 質韋集 Chih wei chi. In 1724 Ch'ên Chao-lun became a chü-jên and six years later (1730) a chin-shih, whereupon he was sent to Fukien as a probationary magistrate. While living in Fukien the governor-general of the province, Hao Yü-lin (see under ), placed him in charge of the Academy known as Ao-fêng Shu-yüan 鰲峰書院, and made him chief editor of the General Gazetteer of Fukien (福建通志 Fu-ch'ien t'ung-chih) which was completed in 1734. On the recommendation of the governor of Fukien, Chao Kuo-lin (see under ), he was asked to participate in the special po-hsüeh hung-tz'ŭ 博學宏詞 examination to be held November 1, 1736. Going to Peking in the autumn of 1734, he obtained by examination a post (1735) as secretary to the Grand Secretariat and later in the same year was appointed to serve in the Council of State. Of some 180 scholars who competed in the po-hsüeh hung-tz'ŭ examination (1736), Ch'ên Chao-lun was one of the fifteen successful candidates. With this honor came appointment as Hanlin corrector. In 1741 he officiated as chief examiner of the Hupeh provincial examination, and twice (1737 and 1742) as associate examiner of the metropolitan examinations. In 1743 his father, Ch'ên P'ei-chün 陳培駿, died. While Ch'ên Chao-lun was at home observing the customary period of mourning he was invited to direct the Chi-shan Shu-yüan 蕺山書院 at Hangchow. Resuming his work at the capital, he was there only a short time when his mother died (1748). Three years later (1751) he was made a diarist and a tutor to the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy. In 1752 he was chief examiner of the Shun-t'ien provincial military examination. From 1754 to 1756 he was prefect of the metropolitan prefecture of 81