Ch'en, Eugene 陳友仁 Ch'en Yu-jen Eugene Ch'en (1878-20 November 1944), antiimperialist, publicist, lawyer, and government official, was a protege of Sun Yat-sen. He was particularly well known as the editor of journals and the author of political manifestoes. San Fernando on the island of Trinidad in the British West Indies was the birthplace of Eugene […]
Ch'en Shu-jen 陳樹人 Ch'en Shu-jen (1883 - 4 October 1948), anti- Manchu revolutionary, served Sun Yat-sen and his cause as director of party affairs in Canada and the United States (1916-22). In 1923 he became director of the general affairs department of the Kuomintang. He held various posts in the Kwangtung provincial government until 1927. […]
Ch'en Ming-shu 陳銘樞 Ch'en Ming-shu (1890 - 15 May 1965), prominent Kwangtung military man, commanded the Eleventh Army, was civil governor of Kwangtung from 1929 to 1931, and in 1931 took command of the Nineteenth Route Army. He was best known for leading the Fukien revolt in November 1933. In 1949 hejoined the Peking government, […]
Ch'en Li-fu 陳立夫 Ch'en Li-fu (1900-) directed the investigation division of the Kuomintang for about a decade after 1928. He served as secretary general of the Kuomintang central headquarters (1929-31), head of the organization department (1932-36; 1938-39; 1944-48), and minister of education (1938-44). He and his brother, Ch'en Kuo-fu, were known as the leaders of […]
Ch'en Chi-t'ang 陳濟棠 Ch'en Chi-t'ang (1890 - 3 November 1954), Cantonese military officer, became commander of the Fourth Army in 1928 and chief commander in Kwangtung in 1929. He was best known for helping create a state of nearautonomy at Canton as part of a movement against rule by Chiang Kai-shek, and he controlled Kwangtung […]
Ch'en Chiung-ming 陳炯明 Ch'en Chiung-ming (13 January 1878 - 22 September 1933) was an anti-Manchu revolutionary who became an early republican governor of Kwangtung. After Yuan Shih-k'ai deposed him in 1913, he participated in the anti-Yuan campaigns and then headed the forces of Sun Yatsen's constitution protection movement. In October 1920 he occupied Canton, and […]
Ch'en Kuo-fu 陳果夫 Ch'en Kuo-fu (27 October 1892 - 25 August 1951) directed the organization department of the Kuomintang (1926-32; 1944) and created a closely knit organizational structure for the party. He was acting head of the Control Yuan (1928-32), governor of Kiangsu (1933-37), and he directed the department that selected personnel for the government […]
Ch'en Pu-lei 陳布雷 Ch'en Pu-lei (26 December 1890 - 13 November 1948) was best known as Chiang Kai-shek's confidential assistant (1935-48), in which position he phrased the policies of the Kuomintang and the National Government. Previously, he had served as the editor of the Shang Pao and of the China Times. In 1939 he became […]
Ch'en Pi-chun 陳璧君 Ch'en Pi-chun (5 November 1891 - 17 June 1959), the wife of Wang Ching-wei (q.v.), held together Wang's Japanese-sponsored regime after his death in 1944. In 1946 she was convicted of treason and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Little is known of Ch'en Pi-chun's childhood. She was a native of Hsinhui (Sunwui), […]
Ts'ai T'ing-k'ai (15 April 1892-25 April 1968), field commander of the Nineteenth Route Army who won international fame as a result of that force's brave stand against the Japanese at Shanghai in 1932. In late 1933 he participated in the so-called Fukien revolt against Nanking. After 1949 he held a variety of posts in the […]
