(This is a book about South Korean food history and cultur...)
This is a book about South Korean food history and culture. It also records the process of how Lee Young-ae and her creating team search for the history and connotation of Korean food, such as the imperial meal of Korean Kings and normal residents' diets, as well as the research on the source of food materials such as barbecue and pickle.
Li-Young Lee was born on August 19, 1957, in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia. 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. 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.
Education
Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport.
Career
Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he began to develop his love for writing. He had seen his father find his passion for ministry and as a result of his father reading to him and encouraging Lee to find his passion, Lee began to dive into the art of language. Many of Lee’s poems are filled with themes of simplicity, strength, and silence. All are strongly influenced by his family history, childhood, and individuality. He writes with simplicity and passion which creates images that take the reader deeper and also requires his audience to fill in the gaps with their own imagination. These feelings of exile and boldness to rebel take shape as they provide common themes for poems.
Achievements
In 2011 Lee's poem ″A Story″ was featured in the AP English Literature and Composition 2011 Free-Response Questions.
Quotations:
If you rigorously dissect it, you realize that everything is a shape of the totality of causes. What’s another name for the totality of causes? The Cosmos. So everything is a shape of Cosmos or God. It feels like something bigger than me—that I can’t possibly fathom but am embedded in.
Interests
Writers
Li Bo and Tu Fu
Connections
In 1978, Lee married Donna L., and they gave birth to two sons.
Wife:
Donna L.
maternal great-grandfather:
Yuan Shikai
China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor
