爱泼斯坦先生是国际著名记者。1915年4月20日生于波兰。1917年随父母移居中国。1931年在《京津泰晤士报》开始从事新闻工作。1937年任美国合众社记者。1938年在香港参加宋庆龄创建的保卫中国同盟。在整个抗日战争期间，他努力向世界人民报道中国共产党和中国人民的英勇斗争。日本投降后，他在美国积极参加反对干涉中国内政和宣传新中国诞生的活动。
1951年应宋庆龄之邀，回中国参与《中国建设》杂志创刊工作。1957年加入中国籍。现任全国政协常委、《今日中国》名誉总编辑、中国福利会副主席、宋庆龄基金会副主席、中国国际友人研究会名誉会长、中国工业合作协会国际委员会名誉副主席等职。
Israel Epstein ,born in 1915 in Poland , was brought up in China and there began his journalistic work , publishing also in major media in the United States and other countries. His first association with Soong Ching Ling was in 1938?45 in the wartime China Defense League in Hong Kong and Chongqing (Chungking ).
In 1951 Soong Ching Ling invited him and his wife , the late Elsie Fairfax-Cholmeley (1905-84), to return from the United States, where they had lived, in the interim, to help set up the monthly magazine she founded in Beijing, China Reconstructs (now China Today) of which, at Soong Ching Ling’s death in 1981, Epstein was editor-in-chief, having, in the meantime, become a citizen of the People’s Republic.
He is now member of the National Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Vice?Chairman of the Soong Ching Ling Foundation and China Welfare Institute (Shanghai), the Honorary President of the China Society for People’s Friendship Studies, the Honorary Vice-Chairman of the International Committee for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of China Today.
Previous books by Epstein include The People’s War in China, London, Victor Gollancz, 1939, The Unfinished Revolution in China, Boston, Little Brown,1947, From Opium War to Liberation, 1956, Woman in World History?Soong Ching Ling, 1992, My China Eye, 2004, Beijing New World Press.
