Anticontrol of chaos by making a nonchaotic system chaotic has led to the d
iscovery of some new chaotic systems, particularly the continuous-time thre
e-dimensional autonomous Chen's equation with only two quadratic terms. Thi
s paper further investigates some basic dynamical properties and various bi
furcations of Chen's equation, thereby revealing its different features fro
m some other chaotic models such as its origin, the Lorenz system.