She was the daughter of the Chinese millionaire Chen Gengji and his second wife Wei Yuelang and was raised in
Penang in
British Malaya. Cheng Gengji had many children, and Chen Bijun was regarding by her family members as a strong-willed child. Chen Bijun was elected member of the KMT Central Supervisory Committee for their government party. When her spouse died in 1944, he was replaced by
Chen Gongbo. Chen Bijun left Nanjing and took control of the Canton government, which she kept for four months.
Post war After the surrender of the Japanese in August 1945, she was offered but rejected an evacuation by the Japanese. She was arrested by the order of Chiang Kai-shek on 25 August and charged with treason. She refused to admit guilt. She was convicted by the Nationalist government for being a
hanjian and imprisoned in Suzhou.'''''' In 1949, upon the Communist takeover, she was transferred to a Shanghai prison. On the request of He Xiangning and
Soong Ching-ling,
Mao Zedong and
Zhou Enlai offered her a pardon if she would denounce Wang Jingwei, but she refused. She remained in prison until her death. ==In popular culture==