The pronunciation of "que" is dialect.
Mr. Chen Yinke is a Hakka. In some southern provinces, the pronunciation of "ke" is close to "que", but the sound "que" does not exist in the standard Mandarin Chinese. When Mr. Chen Yinke was teaching in the north, people who knew him were accustomed to calling him the southern dialect.
Chen Yinke, courtesy name Heshou, was born in Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province. A rare figure in modern China who combines historians, classical literature researchers, linguists, and poets. Together with Ye Qisun, Pan Guangdan, and Mei Yiqi, he is listed as the four major philosophers in the century-old history of Tsinghua University. Together with Lu Si Mian, Chen Yuan, and Qian Mu are collectively known as the "Four Great Masters of Predecessor Historiography".
His achievements
Chen Yinke is not only a great historian, but also an outstanding poet in the old style. He admired Tao Yuanming and Du Fu. Although he liked the poems of Li Bai and Li Yishan, he did not think them to be of high quality. He especially liked poetry that was popular among the people, so he admired Bai Juyi the most. In his "On the Destiny of Rebirth", he said, "When discussing poetry, I also play the style of poetry."
"Shi Cun" was published. His life works were compiled and collated by his student Jiang Tianshu, professor of the Chinese Department of Fudan University. A two-volume, 2 million-word "Collected Works of Chen Yinke" was compiled into a volume in 1979 and published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House.