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William Poy, MM ( Chinese: 伍英才; 1907 – 3 February 2002) was an Australian-born Canadian civil servant and businessman of Chinese descent. He served with the Royal Hong Kong Regiment (the Volunteers) during World War II as a Lance Corporal messenger and worked for the Canadian Trade Commission in Hong Kong. He was awarded the ...
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20. Nov. 2018 · A third generation San Franciscan, William Poy Lee is an author, lawyer, business consultant and educator who has lived in China for over five years. His memoir The Eighth Promise:...
William Poy Lee (Chinese: 李培湛) is an author and political activist currently living in Shanghai, China. His 2007 book The Eighth Promise is a memoir about two generations of Chinese Americans, in China and Chinatown, San Francisco.
- Author, Political Activist
- English
- 1951 (age 71–72), San Francisco
William Poy Lee's The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother is partly a memoir and partly an oral history of his life in San Francisco's Chinatown. Lee grew up torn between the conservative traditions of Asian immigrant culture and the temptations of contemporary San Francisco. As the title suggests, Poy Jen, Lee's ...
William Poy Lee visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother." T...
A third generation San Franciscan, William Poy Lee is an author, lawyer, business consultant and educator who has lived in China for over five years. His memoir The Eighth Promise: A Toisan Son Pays Tribute to his Toisanese Mother was published in 2007, and is a Toisanese-Californian coming of age story in America’s tumultous 60s and 70s
The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother is a memoir written by William Poy Lee published in 2007 by Rodale Books. The paperback version was released October 2007. A translation into Mandarin Chinese is in development with the Chinese Professors of American language and Culture Studies.
