Ch'en

See also: Appendix:Variations of "chen"

English

Alternative forms

• Chen

Etymology

From Mandarin 陳／陈 (Chén), Wade–Giles romanization: Ch'en².

Proper noun

Ch'en (plural Ch'ens)

1. A surname from Mandarin.
   • 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^[1], Washington: Government Printing Office, page 2474:

     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.

   • 1972, Burton Pasternak, “Kinship”, in Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages‎^[2], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:

     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.

   • 1973 [1971], Jürgen Domes, “Opposition and 'Readjustment'”, in Rüdiger Machetzki, transl., The Internal Politics of China, 1949-1972‎^[3], Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:

     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.

   • 1983, C. Martin Wilbur, “The Nationalist Revolution: from Canton to Nanking, 1923-28”, in John K. Fairbank, editor, The Cambridge History of China‎^[4], volume 12, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 543–544:

     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 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^[5], number 479, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:

     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.

   • 1987, Judith M. Boltz, A Survey of Taoist Literature Tenth to Seventh Centuries‎^[6], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 April 2016, pages 185–186:

     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.

   • 2015, Xiao Bai, translated by Chenxin Jiang, French Concession‎^[7], Harper Collins Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 59:

     The police were here at noon, Ch’ien said. They inspected the sign-in books and asked questions about a certain Mr. Ch’en.

   • 2023 January 24, Dennis Overbye, “Where is Physics Headed (and How Soon Do We Get There)?”, in The Washington Post‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 January 2023‎^[9]:

     Sharing the chairmanship are two prominent scientists: Maria Spiropulu, Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and the cosmologist Michael Turner, an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, the former assistant director of the National Science Foundation and former president of the American Physical Society.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'en.