Background
Chen was born into an elite Shanghai family, and his maternal grandfather was from India.
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Chen was born into an elite Shanghai family, and his maternal grandfather was from India.
His also used the pen names Lín Méi (林枚) and Qìng Yú (慶餘). During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was jailed by the Imperial Japanese Army for his patriotic songs. With the Communist seizure of power in China in 1949, popular music was considered ideologically suspect and Chen was labeled a rightist and imprisoned in a laogai for "reform through labor" in 1957.
He died soon after at the age of 47.