Chen Yixing 陳夷行

Other names

Origins and identity

• descended from the Chen clans of Jiangzuo 其先江左諸陳
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 5

Career and standing

• Censor-in-Chief 御史大夫
  AD 840 武宗即位 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 37
• Left Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs 尚書左仆射
  AD 840 武宗即位 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 37
• Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi 同中書門下平章事
  AD 837 開成二年 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 10
• Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent 太子太保
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 50
• Hanlin Academician 翰林學士
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 7
• Military Commissioner of Hezhong 河中節度使
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 50

Places and affiliations

• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 10, 37
• At Yingchuan 潁川 · Relation Family sojourned
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 5
• At Hezhong 河中 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 50
• At Huazhou 華州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 36
• At Jiangzuo 江左 · Relation Ancestral origin
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 5

Learning and skills

• Earned
  Credential Presented Scholar 進士
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 6

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Addressed to Emperor Wenzong (文宗)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 15, 18, 29, 33
• Memorial · Author · With Cui Gong (崔珙) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 38-47
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 22-23

Events and relationships

• Clashed in debate before the emperor with Yang Sifu and Li Jue
  Political · Participant
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 11, 20
• Comforted and recalled by imperial envoys
  Political · Subject · With Emperor Wenzong (文宗)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 12
• Secretly aided Zheng Tan against factional cliques
  Political · Participant
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 35
• Settled disputed vice director court salute regulations
  Ritual administrative · Proposer
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 48-49
• Relation Ally of · Person Zheng Tan (鄭覃)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 35
• Relation Rival of · Person Yang Sifu (楊嗣復)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 11, 34

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment chiefly bent on attacking Yang Sifu · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 34
• stiff and independent; unwilling to compromise with fellow ministers
  Character
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 11

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 5