Li-Young Lee
Poet, Author
1957 –
Who is Li-Young Lee?
Li-Young Lee is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor. Lee's father, who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. His father was exiled and spent 19 months in an Indonesian prison camp in Macau. In 1959 the Lee family fled the country to escape anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964. Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport.
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- Born
- Aug 19, 1957
Jakarta - Also known as
- Lee, Li-Young
- Ethnicity
- Chinese American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctor of Humane Letters, State University of New York at Brockport
( - 1998) - University of Pittsburgh
- University of Arizona
- Doctor of Humane Letters, State University of New York at Brockport
- Lived in
- Jakarta
- Chicago
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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