Early-Qīng historiographer from Jiāngyīn 江陰 (modern Wúxī area, Jiāngsū). CBDB id 55379 attests his birth as 1650 with no firm death-date; the Sìkù tiyao gives him as a Wànlì-period figure, but the catalog meta and CBDB place him in the early Qīng — the catalog meta’s “fl. 1650–1700” is correct. He specialized in late-Míng commemorative literature; his major surviving work is the Dōnglín lièzhuàn 東林列傳 (KR2g0048) — a 24-juàn / 180+-man collective biography of the Míng Dōnglín faction, drawing principally from the Dōnglín dǎngrén bǎng and from Shěn Cuǐ 沈㴶 / Wēn Tǐrén 溫體仁’s hostile late-Míng partisan rosters. The work was preserved in the Sìkù despite the Qiánlóng emperor’s polemical Yùzhì tí against its interpretive frame, on the grounds of documentary value. He should not be confused with the late-Qīng historian Chén Dǐng 陳鼎 (1854–1904, CBDB id 338384) of the same name.