Chen Baochen

{{Short description|Chinese official during late Qing era}}

{{family name hatnote|Chen|lang=Chinese}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Imperial tutor

|name= Chen Baochen

|image= Chen Baochen.jpg

| office = Minister of Deliberation

| term_start = 1 July

| term_end = 12 July 1917

| cabinet =

| primeminister = Zhang Xun

| alongside = Zhang Xun, Liu Tingchen

| predecessor =

| successor =

| office1 = Consultant minister of the Bideyuan

| term_start1 = 14 August

| term_end1 = 1 November 1911

| primeminister1 = Yikuang

| alongside1 =

| predecessor1 =

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| education = Jinshi degree in the Imperial Examination

| birth_date = {{birth date|1848|10|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Fuzhou, Fujian, Qing Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|3|5|1848|10|25|df=yes}}

| death_place = Beiping, Republic of China

| occupation = Politician

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Chen Baochen ({{zh|t=陳寶琛|s=陈宝琛|p=Chén Bǎochēn|first=t}}; 1848–1935) was a Chinese official during late Qing era, hailing from Fuzhou, Fujian province in southeast/coastal China. During the last years of the Qing dynasty, he served as sub-chancellor in the Grand Secretariat and as vice minister of Rites (禮部侍郎). Following the collapse of the imperial order and the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, he remained loyal to the Qing dynasty and served as tutor and adviser of the former emperor, Puyi, who was allowed to stay in the Forbidden City for more than thirteen years under the "Articles of Favorable Treatment". In 1917, Chen supported the Manchu Restoration, the loyalist general Zhang Xun's abortive attempt to restore the Qing dynasty. Chen Baochen continued to serve Puyi after he was finally expelled from the Forbidden City in 1924, but unlike his rival Zheng Xiaoxu, he refused to collaborate in the establishment of Manchukuo.

Victor Wong portrayed Chen in the 1987 feature film The Last Emperor.