Chung-Chang Shen[a] (13 July 1905 – 19 March 1987) was a Chinese linguist, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and antiquarian best known for rescuing the Juyan Han wooden slips during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Among them were foreign scholars including Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Richard Wilhelm, Vincenz Hundhausen, and Sven Hedin, as well as Chinese scholars such as Chen Yinke, Hu Shih, Liu Tianhua, Liu Bannong, Jin Kemu, Fu Ssu-nien, Yuen Ren Chao, and Xu Zhimo.

[1][2] From 1933 to 1937, Chung-Chang Shen served as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Liberal Arts of Peking University and as the administrative officer for the Council of the Sino-Swedish Expedition.

[3][1][4] In 1937, after the Second Sino-Japanese War began, Chung-Chang Shen rescued 10,200 wooden slips dating from the Han dynasty, initially excavated in the Juyan Lake Basin during the Sino-Swedish Expedition.

[5][6][7] In order to protect them from potential damage by Japanese troops, he transported the Juyan Han wooden slips from Beijing to Tianjin and then to the University of Hong Kong.