(en) Liu Dong, Israel Epstein: A Special Chinese Citizen Who Brings China to the Outside World, View of a Life in China, china.org.cn : « T was the midsummer of 1951, and at the personal invitation of Soong Ching Ling, Israel Epstein and his late wife, Elsie Fairfax-Cholmeley, returned to China from the USA to help set up China Reconstructs in Beijing ».
(en) Israel Epstein, sur china.org.cn, 19 avril 2013 : « Shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Epstein and his wife returned to China to help Soong Ching Ling set up China Reconstructs (now renamed China Today) magazine in Beijing. »
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(en) Israel Epstein, in Encyclopedia. The Communist Party of China (source : PLA daily 2005-07-26, updated 2010-09-29) : « Beginning from 1931 he did press work at the "Beijing-Tianjin Times". He served as reporter with UPI of the United States in 1937. [...] During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when serving as a correspondent of the United Press and the Allied Labor News of the United States [...]. »
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(en) Chinese President Praises Jewish Journalist Israel Epstein, The Jewish Daily Forward, April 22, 2005: « Born in Poland in 1915, Epstein arrived in China as a toddler when his father, Lasar Epstein, began a 20-year tenure as the Bund’s representative in Tientsin. »
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(en) John Powers, History as propaganda: Tibetan exiles versus the People's Republic of China, 2004, p. 20 : « Israel Epstein and Tom Grunfeld enthusiastically endorse the Chinese version
of events and use much the same language as do Chinese writers to describe conditions in Tibet prior to the 1950s.36. »
(en) Douglas Martin, Israel Epstein, Prominent Chinese Communist, Dies at 90, The New York Times, 2 juin 2005 : « In 1941, a short item in The New York Times reported that he had been killed, but it later turned out that he had faked his death to divert the Japanese who were hunting him. »
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(en) Premier Wen Congratulates Israel Epstein's 88th Birthday, People's Daily Online, 21 avril 2003 : « Since 1983, he has been a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. »
(en) Top leaders pay final farewell to Israel Epstein, SINA English, 2005-06-03 : « A memorial ceremony was held at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery here Friday for journalist Israel Epstein, who died in Beijing at age 90 on May 26. Top leaders Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin and Li Changchun were among the many officials attending the ceremony. Epstein's body was cremated after the funeral service. »
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(en) Hu, Wen say final farewell to Epstein, "Sohu.com" (en anglais), 4 juin 2005 : « When serving as a correspondent of the United Press and the Allied Labour News of the United States, Epstein visited Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Shanxi-Suiyuan Anti-Japanese Base Areas, and interviewed Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other CPC leaders. »
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(en) Israel Epstein, obituary, The Telegraph, 14 juin 2005 : « Israel Epstein was born in Warsaw on April 20 1915. His parents, who were Jews and socialists, had been imprisoned for their political activities by the Russian authorities then in control of the city, and his mother had briefly been exiled to Siberia. / Soon after the boy's birth, his father's employer sent him to Japan on business, and when the Germans threatened Warsaw his mother fled to Tokyo with her son. In 1917, when Israel was two, the couple moved to China, and in 1920 they settled in the port city of Tianjin. »
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(en) Israel Epstein and his Tibet, China Tibet Information Center, 21 avril 2005 : « He participated in China's revolution in the 1930s as a journalist, going to front-line revolutionary bases and writing eyewitness accounts of the bravery of the Chinese people as they fought for national independence and liberation. »
(en) Sarah Wang, Israel Epstein: Lifelong Love for China, in 30th Anniversary of the Death of Madame Soong Ching Ling, 25 mai 2011 : « When he was two, his family moved to China and settled down in Tianjin following a three-year stay in Harbin. »
