works are referred to by bibliographers, namely: 天一道人集 T'ien-i tao-jên chi, 100 chüan; 日省堂詩文集 Jih-shêng t'ang shih-wên chi, 1 chüan; 閑止書屋(堂)集鈔: hsien-chih shu-wu (t'ang) chi-ch'ao, 2 chüan, (printed in 1693?); and 松鶴山房集 Sung-ho shan-fang chi, comprising his prose in 20 chüan and his verse in 9 chüan. Two incomplete copies of the Sung-ho shan fang chi are listed in recent catalogues—one in the Peking National Library (2 chüan missing) and another in the Kuo-hsüeh Library at Nanking.
Ch'ên Mêng-lei had two younger brothers, Ch'ên Mêng-hsiung 陳夢熊 and Ch'ên Mêng-p'êng 陳夢鵬 , the latter a hsiu-ts'ai of 1683. One source asserts, perhaps erroneously, that he had a brother named Ch'ên Mêng-ch'iu 陳夢球 (T. 二受, H. 遊龍, a chin-shih of 1694), who was a member of the Chinese Plain White Banner. According to the Jung-ts'un yü-lu hsü-chi (see under Li Kuang-ti), the last-mentioned belonged to a family which had been forced to become bannermen because of cooperation with Chêng Ch'êng-kung [q. v.]
[3/116/42a; 4/44/15b; 17/1/63a; 34/104/9a; Ch'ên Shou-ch'i [q. v.], Tso-hai wên-chi 3/40a; 國朝文匯 Kuo-ch'ao wên-hui 甲集, 25/1a; Fukien t'ung chih (1922) 列傳文苑清 1/9a, 藝文 61/13b; Tai Tzŭ 戴梓, 耕煙草堂詩鈔 Kêng-yen ts'ao-t'ang shih-ch'ao (in 遼海叢書四集) 1/6b, 2/1b, 4/13a; Jung-ts'un p'u-lu ho-k'ao (see under Li Kuang-ti) 上/37a; Tung-hua lu, K'ang-hsi 21:1, 61:12; 詞林輯略 Tz'ŭ-lin chi-lüeh 2/18a; Jung-ts'un yü-lu, hsü-chi, passim; 故宮殿本書庫現存目 Ku-kung tien-pên-shu-k'u hsien-ts'un-mu 類書, 1a; 史料旬刊 Shih-liao hsün-k'an, no. 14, p. 天515; Giles, Index; 桐鄉縣志 T'ung-hsiang hsien-chih (1882) 15/宦績40b; 圖書館學季刊 T'u-shu-kuan hsüeh chi-k'an, vol. 2, no. 2 (1928), pp. 235–45; 晚晴簃詩匯 Wan-ch'ing i shih-hui 36/28a.]
CH'ÊN Ming-hsia 陳名夏 (T. 百史) d. 1654, age 50 (sui), Ming-Ch'ing official, was a native of Li-yang, Kiangsu, and a member of the political group known as Fu-shê (see under Chang P'u). In 1643 he passed first in the last metropolitan examination held under the Ming regime. Taking third place in the palace examination, he was appointed a Hanlin compiler, but soon was given the rank of compiler of the first class, with the additional duties of a senior metropolitan censor. When Li Tzŭ-ch'êng [q. v.] captured Peking in 1644 Ch'ên was reported to have submitted to this usurper for a time. Hence when he returned to his native district he was listed by the court of the Prince of Fu (see under Chu Yu-sung), then opposed to the Tung-lin and Fu-shê factions, as a disloyal official. He escaped to the north in 1645 and submitted to the Manchus who at once gave him the same rank that he had in the defunct dynasty. Later in the same year he was made a vice-president of the Board of Civil Office and three years later president of the same Board. In 1651 he was promoted to the post of a Grand Secretary.
Although he was accused of bribery and usurpation of power, and was dismissed for a time, he was again made a Grand Secretary in 1653 with the additional rank of president of the Board of Civil Office. Quoted as favoring a return to Ming fashions and customs, and in particular of disapproving the tonsorial regulations imposed on the Chinese by their conquerors, he was accused of treason by Ning Wan-wo [q. v.], another Grand Secretary. Ning also accused him of forming a clique in the government to usurp power, of allowing his son to live lawlessly in Nanking, and of revising imperial decrees without authority. In consequence of Ning's memorial, Ch'ên was tried and sentenced to death by strangulation. His collected works in prose, entitled 石雲居文集 Shih-yün chü wên-chi, 15 chüan, were printed about 1646. According to the gazetteer of his native place, there is a collection of his works, entitled Shih-yün chü chi, 30 chüan.
[1/251/3b; 2/79/57a; Li-yang-hsien chih (1813) 11/30a; Cha Shên-hsing [q. v.] Jên-hai-chi, 上/5a.]
CH'ÊN P'êng-nien 陳鵬年 (T. 北溟 and 滄洲) Jan. 10, 1664–1723, Feb. 9, official, was a native of Hsiang-t'an, Hunan. In his youth his family retired to the mountains to avoid disturbances following the revolt of Wu San-kuei [q. v.]. There he engaged in the study of the classics. When the family returned to Hsiang-t'an he took the examinations, finally receiving his chin-shih degree in Peking in 1691. Five years later he was appointed magistrate of Hsi-an, Chekiang, and then of Shan-yang, Kiangsu. He achieved a reputation as a model official with the appellation "Ch'ên Ch'ing-t'ien" 陳青天 (Ch'ên of the Clear Sky) because of his
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