Thursday, September 5, 2024

Today Is Corky Lee’s Birthday

Corky Lee was born on September 5, 1947. He would have been 77 years old today.

Below is an on-going list of publications with text and photographs about and by Corky. (You might have to sign up at the Internet Archive to view images.)


1970s

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1970
Photocopy of “Asian Organizations in Amerika” included Corky at Two Bridges Neighborhood Council

Chinese American Times, December 12, 1970–January 1971; panelist at Asian Reality Conference 

New York Times/Arno Press, 1971
“Station J” credit

Editors Amy Tachiki, Eddie Wong, Franklin Oda with Buck Wong
UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1971
Corky and Two Bridges Neighborhood Council

The Militant, April 16, 1971, page 3









East/West, August 4, 1971; New York Chinatown Health Fair

Chinese American Times, November, December 1971, January 1972; Club Notes—Chinatown Mural Workshop, Corky Lee

Compiled and edited by Masako Herman
Oceana Publications, 1974
Corky contact information

Barnard College
Photography credit

New York Post, December 3, 1974
Photograph of Chinatown restaurant interior after melee between police and Ghost Shadows gang members

New York Post, June 21, 1975
photograph of children playing in the spray of an opened fire hydrant

New York Post, August 30, 1975
Corky quoted: “The kind of exposure you get as a Chinese-American leads to a lot of questions. I ask myself what’s my role as a Chinese living in America. The first, most concrete answer is, ‘I might as well try to do something for the Chinese people, work for my own kind.’”

East/West, November 10, 1976; photograph

Chinatown
A videotape documentary on New York’s Chinese community
PBS, December 1976
Publicity still of children playing tug-of-war
(same image on cover of New Asian Standard, August 1991)

Betty Lee Sung
Franklin Watts, 1977
Photographs

New York Post, September 22, 1977
Incident with police; photographs of Pei Wah Chang, Wei Ching Chang, and Lei Van Chang

East/West, October 19, 1977; photograph

East/West, October 25, 1978; two photographs

Heresies #7, Volume 2, Number 3, 1979
previous issue photo credit


1980s

Jack Chen
Harper & Row, 1980
Four photographs

H. Mark Lai, Joe C. Huang, Don Wong
Chinese Culture Foundation, 1980
Acknowledgment and photographs

Milton Meltzer
Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980
Photograph

East/West, February 27, 1980; Asian American Artists Festival appearance

Social Policy, May/June 1980
Photographs

Ashland Times-Gazette, August 12, 1980 (also at the Press Democrat)
United Press International item about President Jimmy Carter’s mother, Lillian, having lunch at a Chinese restaurant in New York City. She was accompanied by Gov. George Ariyoshi who taught her how to use chopsticks. They were entertained by flutist Cho Sun Wong. Lillian mentioned to Corky about the first time Jimmy told her he wanted to run for president—“I said, ‘President of what?’”

Evening Star, February 25, 1981
Corky and two others in “The Chinese: Three Views” exhibit at Martin Luther King Memorial Library

East/West, July 8, 1981; “Not on the Menu”

East/West, July 15, 1981; “Not on the Menu”

East/West, July 22, 1981; “Not on the Menu” half-page article and photograph

Oakland Tribune, August 9, 1981
Chinese Culture Center, “Not on the Menu,” photographs by Corky Lee and Leland Wong

San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, August 9, 1981
Chinese Culture Center, “Not on the Menu,” photographs by Corky Lee and Leland Wong

San Jose Mercury News, August 9, 1981
“Not on the Menu” exhibition and “Woman and Mural” photograph

East/West, August 12, 1981; “Not on the Menu” calendar listing

East/West, August 19, 1981; “Not on the Menu” calendar listing

East/West, December 23, 1981; Him Mark Lai mentioned Corky

Press-Republican (Plattsburgh, New York), March 6, 1982
Corky, general manager of The PeiMei News, quoted

Sampan, September 1982; East Wind: Politics and Culture of Asians in the US review mentioned Corky

“Asian-American Arts: Its Presence and Reality” conference panelist 

Compiled by China Institute in America, Inc.
Edited by Lorin W. Fessler
Vantage Press, 1983
Chinatown protest photograph

Erik Barnouw
Oxford University Press, 1983
photograph

Photographs

John Willis
Crown Publishers, 1983
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “Station J” production credit

Ernie Anastos with Jack Levin
Franklin Watts, 1983
Photograph

Asian Cultural Exchange, 1984
Exhibition listed Corky

East/West, August 15, 1984; Corky, producer of Amerasian Comedy Connection

Sampan, May 8, 1985; Boston forum participant

The Independent, September 1985; 14 photographs

East/West, September 11, 1985; Fred Hyun photograph

East/West, December 11, 1985; Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photograph

Judy Yung
University of Washington Press, 1986
Photographs

Ruth Wolff
Broadway Play Publishing, 1986
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photographs

Edited by Laura Ross with John Istel
Theatre Communications Group, 1986
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “Empress of China” photograph

East/West, January 9, 1986; exhibition at New York’s Henry Street Settlement

Far Eastern Economic Review, October 16, 1986
Chinatown bank photograph

Harry H. L. Kitano
Chelsea House, 1987
Photograph

Barnard College
Photograph

East/West, January 22, 1987; Corky quoted in New York Chinatown Health Clinic article

East/West, February 26, 1987; exhibition at the Philippine Center

East/West, November 26, 1987; photographs

Jennifer Stern
Chelsea House Publishers, 1988
Photographs

James C. Coleman
Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988
Couple in bed

Brian Lehrer
Chelsea House Publishers, 1988
Photographs

Edited by John Istel
Theatre Communications Group, 1988
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “The Man Who Turned into a Stick” photograph

Corky Lee Day”, May 5, 1988, New York City

Edited by Jim Sleeper
Transaction Publishers, 1989
Essay contest winner

Joel M. Charon
Allyn and Bacon, 1989
Two photographs

Patriot Ledger, April 28, 1989
“Not So Docile/Uniquely Asian, Coincidentally American” exhibit, Bank of Boston

Sampan, May 3, 1989; calendar listing for Bank of Boston Gallery exhibit

Sampan, May 17, 1989; calendar listing for Bank of Boston Gallery exhibit


1990s

Clinton L. Doggett and Lois T. Doggett
Chelsea House Publishers, 1990
Photograph

p82: Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center–The Triplex
New York, New York
Grant toward the creation and production of “4690 Havoc in Gold Mountain (Chinese Legends on Western Shores)”; Corky among the creators

New Asian Standard
August 1991
Cover

















New York Times & Arno Press, 1991
“Letters to a Student Revolutionary” credit

Edited by Otis L. Guernsey and Jeffrey Sweet
Applause, 1992
“Havoc in Gold Mountain” credit

Edited by Bertrun Delli
H. W. Wilson Company, 1992
Listing

Joann Faung Jean Lee
New Press, 1992
Cover photograph

National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program
Ng Sheung-Chi portrait

Edited by Steven Samuels
Theatre Communications Group, 1992
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “FOB” photograph

John Willis
Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1992
“Letters to a Student Revolutionary” production credit

Jersey Journal, November 6, 1992
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, “Cambodia Agonistes”, June Angela and Ron Nakahara photograph

William Wei
Temple University Press, 1993
Acknowledgement and five photographs

Text about Corky and three black-and-white photographs

National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program
Liang-xing Tang portrait

Sampan, April 16, 1993; calendar listing for Harvard University exhibit

Corky Lee Day”, May 7, 1993, New York City

Rotunda, June 1993
Corky’s presentation at the American Museum of Natural History listed

The Independent, August/September 1993
photograph of videographers

December 25, 1993
Recipient of the 1993 Asian American Journalists Special Recognition Award

Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Oxford University Press, 1994
Photographs

Alexandra Bandon
New Discovery, 1994
Cover

















Frank Chin
Coffee House Press, 1994
Back cover photograph

Alexandra Bandon
New Discovery Books, 1994
Photographs

Edited by Karin Aguilar-San Juan
South End Press, 1994
Photographs

Vincent N. Parrillo
Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994
self-employed Korean American photograph

Edited by Steven Samuels
Theatre Communications Group, 1994
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “A Doll House” photograph

John Willis
Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1994
“Havoc in Gold Mountain” production credit

Alexandra Bandon
Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994
Photographs

Asian American Arts Centre, “Photography and Community”

Gale Research, 1995
Corky profile; portraits of Frank Chin and Betty Lee Sung

Helen Zia and Susan B. Gall, Editors
Gale Research, 1995
Frank Chin portrait

Susan Gall and Irene Natividad
Gale Research, 1995
Index

Garrett Hongo
Anchor Books, 1995
Cover photograph

The Concordiensis (Union College, Schenectady, New York), February 2, 1995
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, “Letters to a Student Revolutionary” photograph

Susan B. Gall and Irene Natividad
U.X.L. 1996
Frank Chin photograph

Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1996
Photographs

Steven Samuels
Theatre Communications Group, 1996

Rebecca Daniels
McFarland & Co., 1996
photograph of Tisa Chang, Kathy Ding and Ti-Hua Chang

Daily Northwestern, May 13, 1996
Corky slide presentation of Asian culture in the U.S.

The Villager, July 10, 1996
profile, pages 9 and 11

Collected and Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Anvil, 1997
Eileen Tabios photograph

David Peck, Editor
Salem Press, 1997
Frank Chin photograph

Edited by Andrew Ross
Verso, 1997
Photographs

Josephine Ding Lee
Temple University Press, 1997
Photographs

Harry H. Schanker and Katharine Anne Ommanney
McGraw-Hill, 1997
Photographs

The Villager, February 26, 1997
Ernest Abuba photograph

The Villager, March 26, 1997
Dr. Qwie T. Chew and Judge George Chew photograph

Alex Jay, Chinese-American Designers Association
Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival
Union Square Park, New York City, May 1997
A gift from Corky





















The Villager, September 24, 1997
Janu Cassidy photograph

The Villager, December 10, 1997
Lai Fong Yuen photograph

1998
artist-in-residence 1993

Stephanie Arnold
Mayfield Publishing, 1998
Photograph credit
Harry N. Abrams in Association with the Alliance for the Arts, 1998
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photograph

Phyllis Edelson, Editor
Foundation Center, 1998
Asian American Arts Alliance president

Elizabeth H. Rich
Foundation Center, 1998
Asian American Arts Alliance president

Jan Lin
University of Minnesota Press, 1998
Photographs

The Villager, January 21, 1998
Shirley Second, Oscar Gonzalez and Arthur Schwartz photograph

The Villager, February 18, 1998
P.S.A.L. basketball game photograph

The Villager, March 4, 1998
A. Alvarez photograph

The Villager, April 29, 1998
Sikh Festival photograph

asiam, May 1998; photographs

The Villager, May 6, 1998
Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, Center for Korean American Culture performers photograph

The Villager, May 13, 1998
Courtney Goto, “Testimony: Japanese American Voices of Liberation” photograph

The Villager, June 24, 1998
Kathryn Freed and Harriet Fields photograph

The Villager, July 1, 1998
Honi Klein and Deputy Mayor Randy Levine photograph

The Villager, August 19, 1998
Eighth Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival photograph

The Villager, August 26, 1998
Japanese-American hip-hop dancers photograph

The Villager, December 2, 1998
Korean merchants present awards photograph; Edith D’Addario, Kathryn Posin, Gerald Arpino and Jonathan Fanton photograph

The Villager, December 23, 1998
Chung Wha Hung, New York Immigration Coalition photograph

The Villager, December 30, 1998
F. Anthony Zunino, Judith Stonehill and Kim Stahlman photograph

The Light Work Annual, 1999
Artists-in-Residence list

Clifford Thompson, Editor
H.W. Wilson Company, 1999
Frank Chin photograph

Edited by Clifford Thompson
H.W. Wilson Company, 1999
Frank Chin photograph

The Villager, January 27, 1999
Tom Tam and “Sunrise” film crew photograph


2000s

Edward Sakamoto
University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2000
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photograph

Edited by David Peck
Salem Press, 2000
Frank Chin photograph

Avalon Travel Publishing, 2000
Photographs

Helen Zia
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000
Photographs

Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu, Min Song
Rutgers University Press, 2000
Cover photographs

Vivienne Tam
ReganBooks, 2000
acknowledgement

Dusanka Miscevic, Peter Kwong
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 2000
Photographs

Oscar G. Brockett with Robert J. Ball
Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2000
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “Yellow Fever” photograph

Bill Bradley
Artisan, 2000
Photograph

Edited by Fred Ho
Big Red Media, 2000
Corky profile and photographs

Joe Kane
Three Rivers Press, 2000
Acknowledgement

Eleanor T. Lipat
University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
Photograph

Volume 26, Issues 1-2, 2001

Deborah L. Madsen
Gale Group, 2001
Frank Chin photograph

John Willis
Crown Publishers, 2001
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre production credit

Kent Wong
Center for Labor Research and Education, UCLA, 2001
Photographs

Russell C. Leong
UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2002
Photographs

Ronnie Lipton
How Design Books, 2002
Book cover photograph credit

Village Voice, May 7, 2002May 14, 2002
exhibitor, 7th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts

Asian American Art Centre list of artists

Edited by Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003
photographs of Vincent Chen demonstration, and Bill Kochiyama

A Bill Moyers Presentation
Facing History and Ourselves, 2003
Photographs

Iris Chang
Viking, 2003
Photographs

The Light Work Annual 2003
Artists-in-Residence list

Minna Canth and Richard Foreman
Salem Press, 2003
Frank Chin photograph

Edited by Eric Yo Ping Lai and Dennis Arguelles
AsianWeek, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2003
Corky profile and photographs

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant and Refugees, 2003
Photograph

Vincent N. Parrillo
Allyn and Bacon, 2003
photograph of a self-employed Korean American

Dorothy Hoobler
Scholastic Nonfiction, 2003
Two photographs

Yolk, January-February 2003; eight photographers, including Corky, exhibit at the Asian American Arts Centre in New York

Bellmore Life, March 5, 2003
One of ten exhibitors in “Perspectives: Artists of Chinese Descent in New York”

Sampan, August 13, 2003; exhibit at Tufts University

Hill News (St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York), September 5, 2003
p6: Art Exhibits Open at the Gallery
photographs of mothers by Corky and others

Amerasia Journal, Volume 30, Number 2, 2004; Corky mentioned

Renée Phillips
Manhattan Arts International, 2004
Asian American Arts Centre; Corky mentioned

The Light Work Annual 2004
Artists-in-Residence list

Chee Wang Ng
Godavaya LLC, 2004
Corky mentioned

Thomson Gale, 2004
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “Shanghai Lil’s” production credit

Vincent J. Cheng
Rutgers University Press, 2004
Photograph

Edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, Jenice L. View
Teaching for Change and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 2004
Corky mentioned in the Asian Media Collective

Deborah Anne Wong
Routledge, 2004
member of the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans 

John Willis with Ben Hodges and Tim Lynch
Applause theatre & Cinema Books, 2004
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photograph

Icy Smith, Editor
Organization of Chinese Americans and East West Discovery Press, 2004
Photographs

The Independent, July/August 2004
Photograph of Ang Lee and Joan Chen

Peter Kwong and Dušanka Miščevič
New Press, 2005
Photographs

Diane Carol Fujino
University of Minnesota Press, 2005
Photographs

Edited by Carl Rollyson
Salem Press, 2005
Frank Chin photograph

Lisa Harrison and Hugh Villalta
Pearson, 2005
self-employed Korean American photograph

Michigan Daily, March 14, 2005
reception for “The Movement and the Moment Photo Exhibit”

Gary B. Nash, Julie Roy Jeffrey, John R. Howe, Peter J. Frederick, Allen F. Davis, Allan M. Winkler, Charlene Mires, and Carla Gardina Pestana
Pearson, 2006
Civil Rights demonstrator photograph

Edited by Carl L. Bankston and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Salem Press, 2006
Frank Chin photograph

Barnard, Winter 2006; Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photograph

Northport Journal, December 28, 2006
Corky in the “Queens International 2006” at the Queens Museum of Art

William Missouri Downs
Thomson Wadsworth, 2007
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photographs of Tisa Chang and two actors

Artists-in-Residence list

Edited by Steven G. Kellman
Salem Press, 2007
Frank Chin photograph

John Willis with Ben Hodges
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2007
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photograph

Ed Lin
Kaya Press, 2007
Corky mentioned

William Missouri Downs, Lou Anne Wright, Eric Ramsey
Thomson Wadsworth, 2007
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photographs of Tisa Chang and two actors

San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2007
Group show, “The Filipino Diaspora Part II: National”

Gordon H. Chang, Senior Editor
Mark Dean Johnson, Principal Editor
Paul J. Karlstrom, Consulting Editor
Sharon Spain, Managing Editor
Stanford University Press, 2008
Exhibitor at Kearny Street Workshop

Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, 2008
Photograph

Edited by Tram Nguyen
Beacon Press, 2009
A quote by Corky

Gary Y. Okihiro
University of California Press, 2009
Gary Y. Okihiro portrait

John Willis and Ben Hodges
Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2009
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “Yohen” and “Tea” photographs


2010s

Ed Lin
Minotaur Books, 2010
Acknowledgement

Fred Wei-han Ho
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011
Acknolwedgement

Joan Marter, Editor in Chief 
Oxford University Press, 2011
Basement Workshop member

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 2011
Photograph of Vincent Chin’s mother and fiancee

Ben Hodges and Scott Denny
Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2011
Acknowledgement and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “Imelda” photograph

Edited by Annelise Orleck and Lisa Gayle Hazirjian
University of Georgia Press, 2011
Mayor David Dinkins, Miriam Friedlander, Doris Kuo, and Sheldon Silver, Equality House photograph

Ed Lin
Minotaur Books, 2012
Acknowledgement

New York Post, June 2, 2012
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, “Rangoon” photograph

William Missouri Downs
Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013
Tisa Chang portrait

John Willis and Ben Hodges
Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2013
Acknowledgement and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “Stella Rising” photographs

Stony Brook University, “Asian Roots/American Soil: Photographs of Corky Lee”

The Times of Northport & East Northport, March 14, 2013
“Asian Roots/American Soil”, see page B1, page B9 and page B25

Sampan, March 22, 2013; “A Place Called Asian America” exhibition at Tufts University

The New-York Historical Society, 2014
Photograph

Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg
Oxford University Press, 2014
“Chinatown POV: Reflections on September 11th”, two photographs

Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Routledge, 2014
Corky mentioned

Esther K. Chae
Lulu.com, 2014
Acknowledgment

“Waves of Identity: 35 Years of Archiving”
Exhibition Preview, September 24, 2014

Jonathan H. X. Lee, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, and Ronald Y. Nakasone
Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2015
Corky and Vincent Chin mentioned on page 11

Kevin L. Nadal
Arcadia Publishing, 2015
Photograph

Edited by Carl L. Bankston and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Grey House Publishing/Salem Press, 2015
Frank Chin photograph

William Shakespeare
Cambridge University Press, 2015
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre photographs

Erika Lee
Simon & Schuster, 2015
Photographs

Ben Hodges and Scott Denny
Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2015
Acknowledgement and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre “Three Trees” photograph

Karen L. Ishizuka
Verso, 2016
Profile

Russell C. Leong, Editor
Asian American and Asian Research Institute, the City University of New York, 2017
Corky mentioned

Karen L. Ishizuka
Verso Book, 2018
Chinatown rally photograph, and acknowledgement

Edited by Alec Dunn & Josh McPhee
PM Press, 2018
Corky mentioned

Greenwich Time, February 22, 2018
University of Connecticut, “Asian Threads, American Weave. Photographs by Corky Lee”


2020s

The New York Times, January 29, 2021, obituary

The New Yorker, January 30, 2021, “Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves”

Time, February 22, 2021; death noted

Summer 2021
“Undisputed & Unofficial”
remembering Corky

Asian American Histories of the United States
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Beacon Press, 2022

The Racial Railroad
Julia H. Lee
NYU Press, 2022

The Village Sun, May 14, 2022
tribute show in Downtown Brooklyn

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects
Theodore S. Gonzalves
Smithsonian Institution, 2023

Tony DelaRosa
John Wiley & Sons, 2023
Corky mentioned

Street sign unveiled October 22, 2023
Photos by Amy Chen, September 2024


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ava Chin
Penguin, 2024
Mentioned


What Asian America Meant to Corky Lee
May 20, 2024

The Village Sun, June 15, 2024
Corky in new Chinatown mural


PBS, “Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story”



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