Chén Bāngzhān 陳邦瞻 (c. 1557–1623), zì Déyuǎn 德遠, of Gāo’ān 高安 in Jiāngxī. Jìnshì of Wànlì 26 (wùxū, 1598). Career in both central and provincial offices, rising to Vice Minister of War (Bīngbù shìláng 兵部侍郎); biography in Míngshǐ 242. He completed and published in 1605 the Sòngshǐ jìshì běnmò 宋史紀事本末 (KR2c0007) which Féng Qí 馮琦 had begun, taking the unfinished draft from the Censor Liú Yuēwǔ 劉曰梧 of Nánchāng and supplying about seven-tenths of the present text. A year later (1606) he completed his single-handed Yuánshǐ jìshì běnmò 元史紀事本末 (KR2c0008), in 27 sections (4 juǎn in the Sìkù edition; one section was supplied by Zāng Mòxiū 臧懋修 of Guī’ān 歸安, who appended the marker bǔ 補 below the entry on the law-codes). Together with Féng Qí’s Sòngshǐ attempt, Chén’s pair of works is the principal seventeenth-century Míng-period sequel to Yuán Shū’s invention. CBDB (personid 29580) gives an index year of 1560, with death 1623; Wilkinson and the Sòngshǐ jìshì běnmò prefatory matter both place his birth c. 1557. Standard date bracket here 1557–1623.