Lawrence R. Sullivan is a professor emeritus of political science, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, and a research associate, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York City. He is co-editor and co-translator of several works on the Chinese environment including China's Water Crisis by Ma Jun (2004) and The River Dragon has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People (1998) by Dai Qing.

Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan has conducted research at Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Biology, College of Staten Island (CSI), City University of New York where she also conducts cancer research.