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Rh CH'ÊN Ch'i-yü 陳奇瑜, d. 1648, Ming official, was a native of Pao-tê-chou, Shansi. A chin-shih of 1616, he was appointed magistrate of Loyang, Honan. He was promoted to a censor and memorialized against the eunuch,. In 1626 he was appointed to a post in Shensi and six years later was raised to acting governor of the northern part of that province where famine had caused the people to flock to the rebel-bandit standard of. By 1634 his vigorous campaigning had effectively reduced the bandits in Shensi but the evil had spread to neighboring provinces. To unify control he was given full powers for bandit suppression in Shensi, Shansi, Honan, Hukuang, and Szechwan. Organizing his command, he trapped Li Tzŭ-ch'êng and with 36,000 troops in a valley near Hsing-an-fu 興安府, southeastern Shensi. Accepting their proffered surrender, he sent them under guard to return to their farms. En route they mutinied, killed their guards, and the countryside was again thrown into uproar. Ch'ên Ch'i-yü tried to shift the responsibility but was removed from office (1634) and sentenced to exile. Later he was allowed to return to his home. While serving in Honan Ch'ên Ch'i-yü had used his influence to secure the succession of the title of Prince of T'ang to. When the latter set up court in Fukien he named Ch'ên a Grand Secretary. The elderly official, however, never received the appointment and was executed at his home for refusing to comply with the Manchu order to cut his hair. Ch'ên Ch'i-yü's grandson, Ch'ên Ta-mo 陳大謨, was magistrate of Ch'ing-fu, Szechwan, in the sixteen-sixties.

[M.1/260/5a; 小腆紀傳 Hsiao-t'ien chi-chuan 56/15b; Pao-tê-chou chih (1785) 7/4b; (1932) 7/3b; writings, ibid. 10/2b, 11/16a, 11/16b, 11/35a; 明紀北略 Ming-chi pei-lüeh 9/4a; 10/2a, 3a; Pao-tê chou chih (1932), 7/3b, 6b, 18a.]

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 CH'ÊN Ch'i-yüan 陳啟源, d. 1689, scholar, was a native of Wu-chiang, Kiangsu, and a close friend of Chu Ho-ling 朱鶴齡 of the same locality. A licentiate, he collaborated with the latter in the compilation of a comprehensive study of the Odes, entitled 毛詩通義 Mao-shih t'ung-i, in 12 chüan, which is regarded as inferior to his own critical study of the Odes based on the exposition of pre-T'ang scholars. This latter 毛詩稽古編 Mao-shih chi-ku pien, 30 chüan, was completed in 1687 after 14 years of labor and was first published in 1813 with a preface by. It was copied into the Imperial Library (see under ) and is included in the Huang-Ch'ing ching-chieh (see under ). In it Ch'ên Ch'i-yüan analyzes and corrects the works on the Odes by Chu Hsi (see under ), Ou-yang Hsiu (see under ), Lü Tsu-ch'ien 呂祖謙 (1137-1181), and Yen Ts'an 嚴粲 (13th century), and attacks those of Liu Chin 劉瑾 (Yüan dynasty), and Fu Kuang 輔廣 (Sung dynasty). It is one of the best examples of the beginnings of scientific study of the classics in the early Ch'ing period. A Buddhist believer, he has been charged with religious leanings in some of his interpretations and even with having been influenced indirectly by the Jesuits.

[1/486/16a; 2/68/6b; 3;413/24a; 7/32/15a; 16/12/4a; 17/3/46a; 23/3/25a; 小腆紀傳 Hsiao-t'ien chi-chuan 53/19b; Ssŭ-k'u (see under ), 16/6a; Legge, Chinese Classics, IV, I, p. 177, but mistaken in date of publication; year of death in one of the prefaces to Mao-shih chi-ku pien]

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 CH'ÊN Chuan 陳撰, poet and artist, was a native of Hangchow who lived late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries, or approximately from 1670 to 1740. His family came originally from Ningpo, and he himself studied under the eminent scholar,. Though he achieved fame as a poet and a painter, he lived most of the time in seclusion and had few friends. In the second and third decades of the eighteenth century he lived in Yangchow as the guest of a rich merchant.

The collected poems of Ch'ên Chuan, entitled 玉几山房吟卷 Yü-chi shan-fang yin-chüan, 3 chüan, were printed about the years 1716-21. In 1735 he was recommended to take the second special po-hsüeh hung-tz'ŭ examination of 1736, but politely declined. Friends of his who did take the examination were and, the latter having left an account of Ch'ên's life. Three of Ch'ên's paintings are listed in the 甌鉢羅室書畫過目考 Ou-po-lo-shih shu-hua kuo-mu k'ao (1894) by Li Yü-fên (see under ); and a volume of miscellaneous notes by him concerning famous men 85