East-West Center Oral History Project : Ted Lee

Abstract

Ted Lee, eldest son of a Stockton, California, Chinese butcher and grocery store owner, worked hard as a youth in school and in the family's stores. After graduating from Harvard and serving in the army in Europe, he attended law school at U.C. Berkeley. After studying and teaching at the University of Singapore law school he began working at the Honolulu law firm of Fong, Miho, Choy and Robinson. In 1962 after doing some legal work for EWC, Lee was asked by Chancellor Alexander Spoehr to join the Center's new Institute of Advanced Projects as assistant to Vice-Chancellor Ed Weidner.Click on the PDFs to read more. Includes photograph, interview quotes, and the full interview narrative.