# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chen-jitong
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:24:34.027Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chen-jitong"
name: "Chen Jitong"
slug: "chen-jitong"
description: "Chen Jitong, courtesy name Jingru (敬如), also known as Tcheng Ki-tong, was a Chinese diplomat, general, scholar, and shipbuilder during the late Qing dynasty. Chen was born in Houguan, now in present-day Minhou, Fuzhou. In 1869 he started to study the French language at the school attached to the Fuzhou shipyard. In 1875 Shen Baozhen sent thirty Chinese students, from the training school attached to the Foochow Arsenal to study shipbuilding and navigation in Europe. In 1876, Chen Jitong was selected to go to Europe and he wrote a book on his impressions after his return to China the following year. He subsequently served on a number of important positions in the Qing foreign service. While serving as a diplomat in France, he wrote several famous works in French, becoming the first Francophone Chinese author."
tagline: "Qing dynasty diplomat (1851–1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chen_Chi-tung.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1851"
deathDate: "1907"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.353133333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%AD%A3%E5%90%8C"
    title: "陳季同"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Jitong"
    title: "Chen Jitong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Jitong"
    title: "Chen Jitong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Jitong"
    title: "Chen Jitong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Jitong"
    title: "Chen Jitong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Jitong"
    title: "Chen Jitong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A2n_K%C3%B9i-t%C3%B4ng"
    title: "Tân Kùi-tông"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q700782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump