Chén Dōng 陳東 (1086–1127), zì Shǎoyáng 少陽, native of Zhènjiāng Dānyáng 鎮江丹陽 (modern Jiāngsū). The most famous Tàixué shēng 太學生 (Imperial Academy student) of late Northern Sòng — known for the Jīngkāng memorials. Sòng shǐ j. 455 Zhōngyì zhuàn.
In Jīngkāng 1 (1126), as a Tàixué student, Chén Dōng led several hundred fellow students in submitting a memorial directly fúquè (prostrating-at-the-palace-gate) demanding (a) the punishment of the Liù zéi (six bandits): Cài Jīng 蔡京, Tóng Guàn 童貫, Wáng Fǔ 王黼, Liáng Shīchéng 梁師成, Lǐ Yàn 李彥, Zhū Miǎn 朱勔; and (b) the appointment of Lǐ Gāng 李綱 and Zhǒng Shīdào 种師道 to military commands. The action was a critical popular-political moment.
In Jiànyán 1 (1127), responding to Gāozōng’s call for memorialists, Chén Dōng went on foot to the temporary capital and again submitted memorials demanding the execution of Huáng Qiánshàn 黃潛善 and Wāng Bóyàn 汪伯彥. For these memorials he was framed by Huáng Qiánshàn and executed alongside Ōuyáng Chè 歐陽澈 歐陽澈. Gāozōng later regretted the execution and conferred Bìgé xiūzhuàn posthumously.
The Sìkù editors of KR4d0188 take a balanced view: praising Chén’s integrity and zhōngyì (loyal-righteous) memorials but also faulting the Tàixué mass-action mode (shàndòng 煽動 — agitating — over 100,000 people; demolishing palace-gates; luán (slicing) the eunuch Zhū Miǎn) as setting a precedent for the Southern-Sòng Tàixué héng (Imperial Academy unrestraint) that would eventually destabilise government.
CBDB id 14765 confirms 1086–1127. Catalog meta has 1087–1128; CBDB followed (one-year boundary).
His collection survives as Shǎoyáng jí 少陽集 KR4d0188 in 5 juǎn + 1 juǎn fùlù (10-juǎn Kāngxī recension cut down by the Sìkù editors). An earlier Yuán Dàdé (1297–1307) edition was titled Jìnzhōng lù 盡忠錄 in 8 juǎn. The Sìkù editors stripped most of the appendix material, retaining only the Sòng shǐ biography, xíngzhuàng, Qīnzōng’s edict to one jiāzǐ, and seven Gāozōng-period decrees.