西冷散人 Xīlíng Sǎnrén — “The Wanderer of Xīlíng [the West Lake Causeway, Hangzhou]” — is the pen name of the author of KR4k0250 Xīcháo Kuàishǐ 熙朝快史 (A Pleasant History of a Prosperous Dynasty, 1895), a late Qing reform novel. The toponym Xīlíng 西冷 refers to the Xīlíng Bridge area on West Lake (Xīhú 西湖) in Hangzhou, identifying the author as a Hangzhou-area literatus. The title page of the original edition credits three pen names — “corrected by Xiàgunxún of Yǎnguān 鹽官下坤巽, compiled by Yínxiá Jūshì 蔭霞居士, and proofread by Xīlíng Sǎnrén 西冷散人” — believed to be variant pseudonyms of the same person. The author is thought to have been a native of Haining 海寧, Zhejiang, based on the Yǎnguān 鹽官 reference (Yǎnguān being a town in Haining). No further biographical details are established. No CBDB entry identified. The preface of Xīcháo Kuàishǐ is dated Guangxu 21 (1895), giving a precise floruit point.