Chén Shūfāng 陳叔方 (fl. c. 1200–1265), original given name Chén Fǎng 陳昉; zì Shūfāng 叔方, hào Jiézhāi 節齋, posthumous title Qīnghuì 清惠. Of Píngyáng 平陽 in Wēnzhōu 溫州 (modern Píngyáng county, Zhèjiāng). CBDB id 14364 (the entry registers him under his given name 陳昉, with 叔方 and 節齋 as alternate names; lifedates not registered).
Entered office through the yīn 蔭 (hereditary) privilege rather than the examinations, owing to his father’s rank. He rose through a long sequence of central-government posts to the senior offices of Lìbù shàngshū 吏部尚書 (Minister of Personnel) and Duānmíngdiàn dàxuéshì 端明殿大學士 (Grand Academician of the Duānmíng Hall). The Sìkù editors of the Yǐngchuān yǔ xiǎo 潁川語小 identify him on the basis of two converging witnesses: Zhōu Mì’s 周密 Guǐxīn zázhì 癸辛雜識, which records two anecdotes about a Jiézhāi Chén Shūfāng, and Sòng wúmíngshì 宋無名氏’s Shī jiā dǐngluán 詩家鼎臠, which preserves a gōngcí 宮詞 by “Jiézhāi Chén Fǎng Shūfāng” placed (anthology-internal date) between Zhào Kuí 趙葵 and Wáng Mài 王邁. The Sòng shī jìshì 宋詩紀事 confirms the identification.
The Sìkù editors carefully distinguish him from a homonymous Yuán-dynasty Chén Shūfāng (original name 陳植), a Sòng loyalist of Wú 吳, son of the recluse Chén Shēn 陳深 (hào Níngjí xiānshēng 寧極先生), who appears in Ní Zàn’s 倪瓚 Qīngbì gé jí 清閟閣集 and in Zhèng Yuányòu’s 鄭元祐 Qiáo Wú jí 僑吳集 (the Mùzhì míng there styles him a shèndú chǔshì 慎獨處士). The Yǐngchuān yǔ xiǎo contains no reference to any Yuán event and so must be the Sòng Chén Fǎng’s work.
Within the Kanripo corpus he is the author of KR3j0050 Yǐngchuān yǔ xiǎo 潁川語小 (2 juan in the Sìkù recompilation from the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn).