TESS JOHNSTON   A graduate of the University of Virginia and a former employee of the American Foreign Service, Miss Johnston has spent over twenty years in Asia; seven in Viet Nam and fourteen in Shanghai. She and her partner, photographer Deke Erh, have written five volumes on old Western architecture in China.

Miss Johnston continues to make Shanghai the base for her research and writing on China. She serves as an advisor to Colliers Jardine Ltd., where she had just completed a relocation guidebook on Shanghai.

Deke Erh (Erh Dongqiang) is a Shanghainese and a versatile freelance photojournalist and editor. He has photographed in all of China's thirty provinces, in Europe and in the United States. The author of numerous books on Chinese folk art, he is also the editor of many historical works on Shanghai.

Mr. Erh is now working on a pictorial history of the round houses of Fujian province as well as preparing for photo exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has just opened a studio, the Old China Hand Reading Room, on Shaoxing Lu in Shanghai.

MARTHA SMALLEY

Martha Lund Smalley is Research Services Librarian and Curator of the Day Missions Collection at the Yale Divinity School Library. She has overseen the development of the Library's archives and manuscripts program since 1975, learning a great deal about China, since a major emphasis of the Divinity Library's collections is on documenting Protestant mission activities in China. She has traveled to Hong Kong and China for conferences and pleasure, most recently with her two teenaged sons. Other books edited by Ms.Smalley include the Yale Divinity School Library publication"American Missionary Eyewitnesses to the Nanking Massacre, 1937-1938", and "Anglicans in China".

In this volume Ms.Smalley was responsible for the old photographs, historic research, and introductory text.