From The Writer’s Almanac:

It’s the birthday of the poet Li-Young Lee… born in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1957. His parents were Chinese. His mother was the granddaughter of China’s first president; his father was the son of a gangster. His father worked as the personal physician to Mao Zedong, but the Lees were extremely Christian, and so after the Peoples’ Republic of China was established in 1949, Lee’s parents fled to Jakarta, which is where Li-Young was born. But the authorities were suspicious of his father’s Western interests —he was a professor and he taught Shakespeare, opera, and Kierkegaard—so he was imprisoned. The family fled again, this time to Japan, Macao, and Singapore before ending up in Hong Kong, where Li-Young Lee’s father became a successful evangelical preacher. The family eventually moved to the United States, where Lee’s father was a Presbyterian minister. As a child, Lee learned to recite ancient Chinese poems and the psalms from the Bible. He has published four books of poetry, including The City in Which I Love You (1991) and Behind My Eyes (2008), and a memoir, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995).

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