Chén Zhù 陳柱

 (1890–1944) Chinese scholar of the classical tradition whose wide-ranging work encompassed the pre-Qín philosophers, Confucian studies and literary history. His importance for the study of the School of Names lies chiefly in Gōngsūnlóngzǐ jíjiě, a comprehensive critical edition and commentary that gathered earlier textual variants and interpretations while adding Chén’s own judgements. Rather than reconstructing the Gōngsūnlóngzǐ exclusively through the concepts of modern logic, Chén sought to establish the textual and historical materials on which interpretation must rest. His work consolidated the results of Qīng and early Republican scholarship and became an important point of departure for subsequent studies of Gōngsūn Lóng.