A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Ch'ên Po-tsung

2059034A Chinese Biographical Dictionary — Ch'ên Po-tsungHerbert A. Giles

241 Ch'ên Po-tsung 陳伯宗 (T. 奉業). A.D. 550-568. Son of Ch'ên Ch'ien, whom he succeeded in 566 as third sovereign of the Ch'ên dynasty. He was a weak youth, and was deposed after little more than a year by his uncle, to whom his father had offered the succession. Known in history as 廢帝 or 臨海王.