Chen Jitong
Chen Jitong | |
|---|---|
陳季同 | |
Chinese Ambassador to France | |
| In office ?–? | |
| Monarch | Guangxu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1851 Qing Dynasty, China |
| Died | 1 January 1907 (aged 56) ?? Qing Dynasty, China |
| Relatives | Chen Shoupeng (陈寿彭) |
| Education | Sciences Po |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
Chen Jitong (
Francophone
Chinese author.
In 1891, he was dismissed from all official positions and settled in Shanghai. Following China's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, he served as foreign minister of the short-lived Republic of Formosa.
Writings
- -- Tcheng-ki-tong, Les Chinois peints par eux memes Paris: Levy, 1884. Internet Archive
- -- Journal d'un mandarin: lettres de Chine et documents diplomatiques inédits Paris: Plom, 1887. Internet Archive
- -- The Chinese painted by themselves. Translated from the French by James Millington. London: Field & Tuer, [1885?]
- -- Tcheng-Ki-Tong, Chin-Chin or The Chinaman at Home. Tr. R. H. Sherard. London: A. P. Marsden, 1895.
- -- Contes chinois Paris: Levy, 1889.
References
- Yeh, Catherine Vance. "The Life-Style of Four Wenren in Late Qing Shanghai." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 57, no. 2 (1997): 419–70.
- Ke Ren, "Chen Jitong, Les Parisiens peints par un Chinois, and the Literary Self-Fashioning of a Chinese Boulevardier in Fin-de-siècle Paris", L'Esprit créateur, Volume 56, Number 3, Fall 2016, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 90–103.
External links
- Speech by Chen (in French)
- YU, Wen (May 24, 2016). "Chen Jitong and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World". Dissertation Reviews.
