Mr. Yin contributes to several Chinese-language newspapers on historical and political subjects. He grew up in Chongqing (Chungking), China's wartime capital. He lived through the notorious Japanese bombing campaign of 1943, becoming one of the thousands of waifs and strays whose homes had been destroyed. He later joined the Nationalist Chinese Air Force. Now retired and living in Fremont, California, Mr. Yin has become a researcher of the Sino-Japanese wars.

Shi Young (at right in the photo with Bishop Tutu) was secretary-general of the Chinese American Journalists Association and the founder and editor-in-chief of New AsianAmericans magazine, published in Chicago for a national audience of Chinese-speaking business and professional people. Born in Beijing, he was a teenager during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) and was among hundreds of thousands of urban youths sent by the Government to rural communes to "learn from the peasantry." After his release, he returned to Beijing, where he was graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Design. In America, he settled in Chicago and received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is now a business executive in Redwood City, California.

Ron Dorfman (at left in the photo with Bishop Tutu) has been a newspaper and magazine writer and editor for more than 35 years. From 1980 to 1981, he worked in Beijing as a "foreign expert" on the staff of China Reconstructs magazine (now China Today). He was a founder and editor of the pioneering Chicago Journalism Review and later served as articles editor of Chicago magazine and editor of The Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists. An alumnus of the University of Chicago and the Stanford University Professional Journalism Fellowship Program, Mr. Dorfman has been a contributor to many publications in the United States and abroad. He lives in Chicago.