A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Ch'ên Ta-shou

by Herbert A. Giles

248 Ch'ên Ta-shou 陳大受 (T. 占咸. H. 可齋). A.D. 1701–1751. A successful official, who graduated as chin shih in 1733. Early distinguished for erudition, he won the first place at the special examination of Han-lin graduates held by the Emperor Ch'ien Lung in 1737. In 1748 he was a Minister of the Grand Council, and earned the Emperor's high approval by his diligence in dealing with the vast mass of correspondence during the war in Chin-ch'uan. He was subsequently Viceroy at Canton. Canonised as 文肅, and included in the Temple of Worthies.