Chen Jue (Southern Tang)

For other people named Chen Jue, see Chen Jue (disambiguation).

Chen Jue (陳覺) (died 959?[1][2][3][4]) was a key official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period states Wu and Wu's successor state Southern Tang, becoming chief of staff to Southern Tang's second emperor Li Jing. He was considered an ally of the senior statesman Song Qiqiu, and after Song lost power, Chen was exiled and killed on the way to exile.

  1. ^ Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 294.
  2. ^ Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms, vol. 26.
  3. ^ Academia Sinica Chinese-Western Calendar Convereter.
  4. ^ Chen Jue was exiled on February 3, 959 and was described to have been executed on the way to his place of exile, implying that his death was shortly after the exile.