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Place of Birth: Jakarta, Indonesia
About Li-Young Lee
- Li-Young Lee (???, pinyin: Li Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet.
- He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents.
- His maternal great-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.
- In 1959 the Lee family fled Indonesia to escape widespread 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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