Dr. G. Wright Doyle received a B. A. with Honors in Latin from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1966); an M. Div. with Honors from the Virginia Theological Semianry in Alexandria (1969); and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, with a dissertation on St. Augustine (1975); he studied Chinese at the Taipei Language Institute full-time for two years (1976-1978) and part-time for another two years (1980-82). From 1980 to 1988, Dr. Doyle served on the faculty of China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan , eventually as Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek. He is currently an adjunct faculty member of that institution, teaching courses in New Testament and in Systematic Theology.

Dr. Doyle is editor of the Greek-Chinese Lexicon of the New Testament and of the Chinese abridgment of Carl Henry's God, Revelation, & Authority. Several volumes composed in English have been published in Chinese, including New Testament Reference Works; Confucius and Christ; a commentary on Paul's letter to the Ephesians; and Hope Deferred: Studies in Christianity and American Society. Dr. Doyle has also authored numerous reviews of books about Christianity and/or Chinese culture.

Global China Center in Charlottesville, Virginia , of which Wright Doyle is Director, was organized in 2004 to further the study of social change in modern China, and particularly the role of religion in Chinese society.

Dr. Carol Lee Hamrin is an expert on contemporary Chinese social and cultural change, as well as US-China relations. She received her Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Comparative World History (China-East Asia focus); an M. A. from Yale University; and a B. A. from St. Olaf College. Dr. Hamrin is a Chinese affairs consultant and Research Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and has taught at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She serves as a Senior Associate with the Global China Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, and advises other academic and nonprofit organizations supporting social progress in China.

Dr. Hamrin became the senior China research specialist at the Department of State through 25 years of public service, where she earned the esteemed Secretary of State's Career Achievement Award. In 2003, she received the Center for Public Justice Leadership Award for outstanding public service.

Dr. Hamrin has published many book chapters and journal articles, and several books, including God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions, Decision Making in Deng's China and China and the Challenge of the Future.

Dr. Yading Li is a scholar and educator in the study of Christianity from Nanjing, China where he served as a professor for many years. In the late 1980s, Dr. Li came to the U. S. and completed a Master of Theological Studies at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois; and Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California . In 1990, Dr. Li returned to China for eight years of service in theological education, teaching and researching the history of Chinese Christianity, and serving as the Dean of Students at Nanjing Theological Seminary. During the same period, he also served as the Executive Secretary, and Deputy Director of the Church Governing Committee of the China Christian Council. In 1998, Dr. Li came to the U. S. again as a visiting scholar for one year at Yale University, in the Overseas Ministries Study Center , focusing on the history of Chinese Christianity. In 1999, he began study at Fuller Theological Seminary under Professor Dr. Paul Pierson, and completed his Ph. D. in Church History in June 2004, when his dissertation received the annual History Award.

As a senior associate with the Global China Center , Dr. Li now serves as the Managing Director for the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity based in New Haven .

In the past two decades, Dr. Li wrote over fifty essays, lectures, Bible studies and sermons, both in Chinese and English, with publications in several magazines and journals. He also completed In the Steps of Pilgrims: The Biographies of the Spiritual Giants in Church History (Vol. I), and translated Hans Kung's Where is Christianity Going? into Chinese.