姜义华，1939年出生，江苏扬州人。复旦大学历史系教授、博士生导师、教育部社会科学委员会委员、复旦大学资深特聘教授、教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地复旦大学中外现代化进程研究中心主任。

1962年毕业于复旦大学历史系，同年在复旦大学历史系任职，1979年为讲师，1982年为副教授，1985年为教授。1986年以来，历任教育部社会科学委员会委员，教育部历史学科教学指导委员会副主任委员，复旦大学学位委员会副主席，上海市政协六、七、八、九、十届常委，上海历史学会会长，上海市社会科学界联合会副主席，上海市台湾研究会副会长，中华炎黄文化研究会学术委员会副主任，复旦大学当代社会文化研究中心主任，复旦大学人文学院院长，教育部人文社科重点研究基地复旦大学中外现代化研究中心主任。

主要从事中国文化史、中国近现代思想史、史学理论及近代中外关系史研究。代表作有《章太炎思想研究》、《百年蹒跚——小农中国的现代觉醒》、《理性缺位的启蒙》、《现代性：中国重撰》、《章炳麟评传》、《天下为公——孙中山思想家剪影》、《中华文明的根柢》、《史学导论》等。

Professor Jiang Yihua, born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1939, is famous Chinese historian, professor and Ph.D. supervisor of the Department of History (Fudan), member of Social Science Committee of Ministry of Education, and director of Center for Comparative Studies of Modernization (Fudan).

Since Prof. Jiang graduated from the Department of History, Fudan in 1962, he has been teaching at the school for long. He was promoted to lecturer, associate professor and professor respectively in 1979, 1982 and 1985. From 1986 till now, Prof. Jiang has been member of Social Science Committee of Ministry of Education, deputy director of the Steering Committee of History Teaching of Ministry of Education, vice chairman of the Academic Degrees Committee of Fudan University, member of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th Standing Committee of CPPCC Shanghai, president of Shanghai Historical Society, vice chairman of the Shanghai Social Sciences Association, vice chairman of the Taiwan Research Association (Shanghai), deputy director of Academic Committee of Yan Huang Culture Studies, director of Center for Comparative Studies of Modernization (Fudan).

Prof. Jiang specializes in China cultural history, intellectual history of modern China, foreign relations of modern China and historical theory. His works include The Thought of Zhang Taiyan(1985), One Hundred Year’s Staggering: The Awakening of Modern China(1992), The Enlightenment without Rationalism(2000), Zhang Binglin: A Critical Biography(2002), Modernity: China’s Narrative(2008), A Public Spirit Will Rule: Silhouette of the Thinker Sun Yat-sen(2011), Introduction to Historiography(1989, 2010), etc.