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Chen (surname)
Chen (陳/陈) is the fifth most common Chinese surname, from the ancient State of Chen granted to Hu Gong Man (1045–986 BC), also adopted by Xianbei Hou Mo Chen; overseas it appears as Chan, Tan, Chin, or Trần.
Chen Baochen
Chen Baochen (陈宝琛, 1848–1935) was a Qing dynasty official and scholar who helped organize coastal defense in the Sino-French War and later tutored the last emperor, Puyi.
Chen Baoguo
Chen Baoguo (陈宝国) is a Chinese businessman who founded and chairs PPmoney, a Guangzhou P2P lending platform launched in 2012 that was Guangzhou's largest before the industry was shut in 2020.
Chen Baozhen
Chen Baozhen (陈宝箴) was a Qing dynasty official and reformer who served as governor of Hunan in the 1890s, making it a center of late Qing reform before being dismissed in 1898.
Chen Baxian's assassination of Wang Sengbian
Chen Baxian's assassination of Wang Sengbian (陈霸先袭杀王僧辩) was the surprise killing of the Liang general Wang Sengbian by Chen Baxian, who then re-enthroned Xiao Fangzhi.
Chen Baxian's founding of the Chen dynasty
Chen Baxian's founding of the Chen dynasty (陈霸先代梁建陈) was the replacement of the Liang dynasty by the Chen in 557, when the general Chen Baxian took the throne as its first emperor.
Chen Baxian's killing of Wang Sengbian
Chen Baxian's killing of Wang Sengbian (王僧辩之死) was the 555 surprise attack at Jiankang in which the Liang general Chen Baxian killed his fellow commander Wang Sengbian.
Chen Baxian's usurpation of Liang
Chen Baxian's usurpation of Liang (陈霸先代梁) was his takeover of the Liang dynasty: he killed Wang Sengbian, enthroned Xiao Fangzhi, and took the throne in 557.
Chen Boda (陈伯达)
Chen Boda (陈伯达, 1904–1989), born Chen Jianxiang, was Mao Zedong's political secretary, editor of Red Flag from 1958, and head of the Central Cultural Revolution Group 1966–1970; ranked fourth in the 1969 Politburo Standing Committee, he fell at the 1970 Lushan plenum and was sentenced to 18 years in 1981.
Chen Cheng
Chen Cheng (陈诚) was a Ming-dynasty diplomat and official who served as envoy to Central Asian states including Herat under the Yongle emperor, and wrote the Record of an Embassy to the Western Regions.
Chen Chu
Chen Chu (陈楚, 762–823) was a Tang dynasty general, nephew of Mao Zhao, who ended the Dingzhou mutiny in 817 and later commanded the palace guards.
Chen Chun-hsiung
Chen Chun-hsiung (陳俊雄) is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who founded Joy Industrial Group in 1971 in Taichung, whose Joytech and Novatec brands supply major bicycle makers worldwide.
Chen Chunxian
Chen Chunxian (陈春先, 1934–2004) was a Chinese plasma physicist who founded Zhongguancun's first private technology enterprise in 1980, earning the title "first person of Zhongguancun".
Chen Commandery Yin clan
The Chen Commandery Yin clan (陈郡殷氏) was a gentry lineage from Chen Commandery that became a leading émigré aristocratic family of the Eastern Jin and stayed prominent into the Tang.
Chen Danian
Chen Danian (陈大年) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded the online-games company Shanda in 1999 with his brother Chen Tianqiao, and later founded WiFi Master Key.
Chen Dejun
Chen Dejun (陈德军, born 1970) is a Chinese express-delivery executive who chairs STO Express and, with his sister Chen Xiaoying, controls the Shanghai parcel carrier.
Chen Deng
Chen Deng (陈登), styled Yuanlong, was an Eastern Han general and Administrator of Guangling who helped Cao Cao destroy Lü Bu and twice defeated Sun Ce's forces.
Chen Diaoyan uprising
The Chen Diaoyan uprising (陈吊眼起义) was a rebellion by She and Han farmers of southwest Fujian against first the Southern Song and then the Yuan dynasty, led by Chen Diaoyan.
Chen Dongsheng
Chen Dongsheng (陈东升, born 1957) is a Chinese entrepreneur of the '92 School who founded China Guardian Auctions in 1993 and Taikang Insurance Group in 1996, serving as its chairman.
Chen Duxiu (陈独秀)
Chen Duxiu (陈独秀), 1879–1942, Chinese revolutionary editor and educator. Founder of New Youth, leader of the New Culture and May Fourth movements, first head of the Chinese Communist Party, later Trotskyist and prisoner of the National Government.
Chen Fan
Chen Fan (陈蕃), courtesy name Zhongju, was a leading Eastern Han minister under Emperors Huan and Ling who opposed eunuch dominance through memorials of remonstrance, becoming Grand Tutor and a model for later scholars.
Chen Feng (businessman)
Chen Feng (陈峰), born 1953, is a Chinese businessman who co-founded and chaired HNA Group, first chaired Hainan Airlines, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2025.
Chen Gang (Chinese entrepreneur)
Chen Gang (陈刚), born 1968, is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and controlling shareholder of Shanghai Aiko Solar, a Shanghai-based maker of solar cells and ABC modules.
Chen Geng
Chen Geng (陈赓) was a Chinese general, born in 1903 in Hunan, who commanded in the Long March and founded the Military Engineering Institute in Harbin.
Chen Gong
Chen Gong (陈宫), courtesy name Gongtai, was a late Han dynasty strategist who served Cao Cao and then Lü Bu, and was executed after the fall of Xiapi.
Chen Gongbo
Chen Gongbo (陈公博, 1892–1946) was a Chinese politician who attended the Communist Party of China's First Congress in 1921, then became a senior Kuomintang official.
Chen Guan
Chen Guan (陈瓘, 1057–1122) was a Northern Song Confucian scholar-official from Shaxian, Fujian, famous for frank remonstrance against reformist ministers and remembered as a representative lay Buddhist of his era.
Chen Gui
Chen Gui (陈规, 1072–1141) was a Song dynasty civil official and defensive commander who held De'an Prefecture through repeated sieges and co-directed the defense of Shunchang against a Jin army of over 100,000.
Chen Helin
Chen Helin (陈合林, born 1956) is a Chinese businessman who founded ASD, a Wenling cookware company nicknamed the "cookware king", and led it into industrial robots.
Chen Hong
Chen Hong (陈鸿) was a Qing dynasty official from Qiantang, Zhejiang, who rose from Hanlin compiler to censor and was known for blunt memorials on water conservancy and salt administration.