Chén Sēn 陳森 (1797–1870) was a Qīng dynasty novelist from Jiāngsū. He spent much of his adult life in Beijing, where he became deeply immersed in the capital’s thriving jīngjù 京劇 theatrical culture and its networks of wealthy literati patrons of male dàn actors. He wrote under the pseudonym Shíhán shì 石函氏. His sole surviving novel, Pǐnhuā Bǎojiàn 品花寶鑒 (KR4k0193), published in 1849, is a 60-chapter work depicting the emotional and erotic bonds between male actors (xiànggōng 相公) and their male patrons, and is considered a pioneering work in the literary representation of male same-sex sentiment in Chinese fiction. CBDB records him under id 691170 with lifedates 1797–1870. Multiple other individuals named 陳森 appear in CBDB (ids 47531, 322155, 482947, 671092, 671093, 685846); only id 691170 has the lifedate range consistent with this author.