Chen Jieru

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.

Chen Jieru (Chinese: 陳潔如; Pinyin: Chén Jiérú; 1906-1971) was the second wife of Chiang Kai-shek.

Chen's ancestral hometown was Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and she was born in Shanghai. She wrote a memoir which Chiang successfully suppressed during his lifetime. It was finally published in 1993, in an edition edited by Lloyd E. Eastman: Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chieh-ju; Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.