Both provincial and municipal records indicate that Chen came from Quanzhou in Fujian province, yet some scholars have speculated that Chen Lai-chang might not even have been a person at all.
儘管在台灣省通治、台北市志中，都有陳賴章是泉州人的記載，不少學者卻懷疑，或許陳賴章根本不是一個人。