Jiang Chunfang (Chinese: 姜椿芳; pinyin: Jiāng Chūnfāng, July 28, 1912–December 17, 1987 ) was a Chinese translator, educationist, and one of the founders of the Encyclopedia of China. He was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu. He had a number of aliases, including Lin Ling (林陵), Shi Yun (什雲), and Cai Yun (蔡雲).
Jiang joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1931, and became a member of the Communist Party the next year. He was the heads of the Propaganda Departments of the Youth League’s Committees in Harbin and Manchuria. He also worked as a Russian translator at the England–Asia Telegraphic Agency (Chinese: 英吉利–亞細亞電報通訊社) under the appointment of .
In 1936, Jiang began working as a translator for the Asian Motion Pictures Company (Chinese: 亞洲影片公司) in Shanghai, which specialized in Russian films. In 1938, he became the Secretary-General of the Culture Subcommittee of the Communist Party’s Shanghai Bureau (Chinese: 中共上海局文委文化總支部書記). In 1941, after consultations with ITAR-TASS, he started the Times Weekly (Chinese: 時代周刊) on behalf of the Soviet side, and acted as the editor-in-chief. Later in 1945 he would become the editor-in-chief of his newly founded Times Daily (Chinese: 時代日報) and the president of Times Press (Chinese: 時代出版社).