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Chen Kun (陈坤)

Chen Kun (陈坤, born 1976, Chongqing) is a mainland Chinese actor and singer, Beijing Film Academy class of 1996, known for The Story of a Noble Family, The Knot, Painted Skin, and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, winner of the Huabiao and Hundred Flowers best-actor awards.

Chen Lijun (陈丽君) (actress)

Chen Lijun (陈丽君), born 1992 in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, is a Yue opera xiaosheng of the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua troupe, famous for New Dragon Gate Inn's Jia Ting and My Grand View Garden's Jia Baoyu, a Wenhua Award winner who crossed into film (Biao Ren) and The Pillowman.

Chen Lin (Han dynasty poet)

Chen Lin (陈琳, courtesy name Kongzhang, died 217) was a Chinese poet and prose master of the late Eastern Han dynasty, one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an.

Chen Mingyuan

Chen Mingyuan (陈鸣远) was a Chinese Yixing stoneware potter active under the Kangxi and Yongzheng reigns of the Qing dynasty, regarded as the most eminent Yixing potter after Shi Dabin.

Chen Ran

Chen Ran (陈染, born 1962 in Beijing) is a Chinese fiction and essay writer whose 1990s novel A Private Life made her a central figure of Chinese women's writing.

Chen Rong (painter)

Chen Rong (陳容, sobriquet Suoweng) was a Southern Song dynasty literati painter who became China's most celebrated painter of dragons, famous for the Nine Dragons handscroll.

Chen Sanli

Chen Sanli (1853–1937) was a Chinese poet and reformist official who led the Tongguangti, the leading school of classical poetry in the late Qing era.

Chen Sen

Chen Sen (陈森) was a Qing dynasty novelist of the Daoguang era, author of Pinhua Baojian, a sixty-chapter novel about Beijing actors and the literati who admired them.

Chen Shizeng

Chen Shizeng, original name Chen Hengke (1876–1923), was a Chinese painter, critic, and educator who defended literati painting in Beijing and was the decisive early patron of Qi Baishi.

Chen Shuren

Chen Shuren (陳樹人; 1884–1948) was a Chinese painter, poet, and Kuomintang politician who co-founded the Lingnan School of painting with Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng, reforming traditional ink painting.

Chen Tingzhuo

Chen Tingzhuo (陳廷焯, courtesy name Yifeng, 1853–1892) was a Qing dynasty ci lyric critic from Dantu, Jiangsu, best known for the Baiyuzhai cihua and its shenyu doctrine.

Chen Weisong

Chen Weisong (陈维崧, courtesy name Qinian, 1625–1682) was an early Qing Chinese poet, the most prolific ci writer of his era and founder of the Yangxian school.

Chen Xiang 6:30 (陈翔六点半)

Chen Xiang 6:30 (陈翔六点半) is a Chinese comedy short-video team founded by director Chen Xiang in 2014 in Yunnan, known for daily reversal sketches, six revenue-sharing network films, and a 2026 move into short dramas on Hongguo.

Chen Xiao

Chen Xiao (陈晓, born 1987, Hefei) is a mainland Chinese actor, Central Academy of Drama graduate, known for Legend of Lu Zhen, Nothing Gold Can Stay, A Dream of Splendor, and The Great Merchant.

Chen Yingzhen

Chen Yingzhen (陳映真), born Chen Yongshan in November 1937, is a Taiwanese writer and publisher, a central figure of postwar left-wing literature and founder of Renjian magazine in 1985.

Chen Zheyuan (陈哲远)

Chen Zheyuan (陈哲远) is a Chinese actor and singer, born 1996 in Shenzhen, a Shenzhen University performance graduate who debuted via iQIYI's 流行之王 (Mr.BIO). Known for 绝代双骄, 偷偷藏不住, 仙剑四, and 把黑夜点燃.

Chen Zhongshi

Chen Zhongshi (陈忠实, 1942–2016) was a Chinese novelist from Shaanxi Province and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, best known for the novel White Deer Plain.

Chendamangalam handloom weavers

Chendamangalam handloom weavers of Ernakulam district, Kerala, a Devanga Chettiar community settled under the Paliam chief ministers, weave GI-tagged kasavu set mundu, dhotis, and sarees with the puliyilakara border on fully manual looms.

Cheng Pei-pei

Cheng Pei-pei (郑佩佩), 1946-2024, Shanghai-born Hong Kong actress and the first female swordplay star of wuxia cinema via Come Drink with Me (1966), later known as Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and a posthumous Golden Horse Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cheng Shifa

Cheng Shifa (程十发, 1921–2007), original name Cheng Tong, was a Chinese painter of the Shanghai school known for the "Cheng style" and for directing the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy.

Cheng Sui

Cheng Sui (程邃, 1607–1692, courtesy name Muqian) was a Chinese seal carver, calligrapher, and painter from Shexian, Anhui, honored as founder of the Qing Hui school of seal carving.

Cheng Xiao

Cheng Xiao is a Chinese singer and actress, born in 1998 in Shenzhen, who debuted in 2016 as main dancer of the Korean-Chinese girl group Cosmic Girls (WJSN).

Chenille fabric

Chenille fabric is a soft, fuzzy cloth made from chenille yarn, named from the French word for caterpillar; it was created in France in the 1780s.

Chenin blanc

Chenin blanc, also called Pineau de la Loire or Steen, is a high-acid white wine grape from France's Loire Valley, first named by Rabelais in 1534, a savagnin descendant, now most planted in South Africa (16,192 ha in 2023).

Chenjerai Hove

Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015) was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist, essayist, and social commentator who wrote in Shona and English; his novel Bones won the 1989 Noma Award.

Chennai 600028 (சென்னை 600028)

Chennai 600028 (சென்னை 600028), also called Chennai 28, is Venkat Prabhu's 2007 Tamil directorial debut about gully cricket rivalry between the Sharks and Rockers, a sleeper hit set in Mandaveli pincode 600028.

Chennai 600028 II

Chennai 600028 II (Second Innings), 2016 Tamil sports comedy sequel to Chennai 600028, directed and co-written by Venkat Prabhu, starring Jai, Shiva, Premgi, and Vaibhav; the Chennai Sharks reunite for a wedding in Theni.

Chennai City Gangsters

Chennai City Gangsters (சென்னை சிட்டி கேங்ஸ்டர்ஸ்) is a 2025 Tamil comedy heist film directed by Vikram Rajeshwar and Arun Keshav, starring Vaibhav, Athulya Ravi, and Manikandan Rajesh; released 20 June 2025, later on SunNXT, with largely negative reviews.

Chennai Express (चेन्नई एक्सप्रेस)

Chennai Express (चेन्नई एक्सप्रेस) is a 2013 Rohit Shetty Hindi action comedy starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone; a record-breaking Eid masala hit criticized and debated for its Tamil stereotypes.

Chennai Love Story

Chennai Love Story (చెన్నై లవ్ స్టోరీ) is a 2026 Telugu romantic drama directed by debutant Ravi Namburii, starring Kiran Abbavaram and Sri Gouri Priya, with story by Sai Rajesh and music by Mani Sharma; released 24 July 2026, it grossed over ₹60 crore worldwide and streams on SonyLIV in five languages.