Chén Jǐngyún 陳景雲
Mid-Qing classical scholar and kǎojù historian. Zì Shàozhāng 少章; hào Shǐyīn 矢音. Native of Wújiāng 吳江 in Sūzhōu 蘇州 (modern Jiāngsū). Lifedates 1670–1747 (CBDB id 82129 confirmed). His father was the well-known Sòng-period historian and educator Chén Yùtíng 陳玉廷.
Career: never held office, but enjoyed a long career as a private kǎojù scholar. He was a close friend of Hé Chuò 何焯 (1661–1722) — the foremost critical-philological scholar of the early Kāngxī era — and his name is regularly paired with Hé Chuò’s in the late-Qīng kǎojù tradition. The bulk of his manuscripts were lost or eaten by rats during his lifetime; what survives is the residue, often in fragmentary form.
Major surviving works:
- Tōngjiàn Hú zhù jǔ zhèng 通鑑胡注擧正 (KR2b0013) in 1 juǎn — sixty-three corrigenda to Hú Sānxǐng’s Tōng jiàn yīn zhù; originally in 10 juǎn, surviving as roughly 1/10 of the original (per his son Chén Huángzhōng’s postface).
- Gāng mù dìng wù 綱目訂誤 (KR2b0022) in 4 juǎn — corrigenda to Zhū Xī’s Tōng jiàn gāng mù.
- Sān guó zhì biàn wù 三國志辨誤 — corrigenda to Chén Shòu’s Sān guó zhì.
- Hán Liǔ zhèng wù 韓柳正誤 — corrigenda to the prose collections of Hán Yù and Liǔ Zōngyuán.
- Jiù Táng shū jiào kān jì 舊唐書校勘記.
His specialty is the precise short-form correction note in the Hé Chuò manner — terse, exact, evidentially anchored, and disinclined to general theorising. His biographical record is partial; the principal source is the funeral epitaph by Wáng Jùn 王峻 appended to the WYG text of the Tōng jiàn jǔ zhèng.