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.