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
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
Compiled and edited by Masako Herman
Oceana Publications, 1974
Corky contact information
Photography credit
New York Post, December 3, 1974
Photograph of Chinatown restaurant interior after melee between police and Ghost Shadows gang members
Bowker, 1975
Two Bridges News editor
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.’”
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Chinatown bank photograph
Harry H. L. Kitano
Chelsea House, 1987
Photograph
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
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
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’s presentation at the American Museum of Natural History listed
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
Ronald Takaki
Chelsea House, 1995
Photographs
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
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.
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
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
Janu Cassidy photograph
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
Shirley Second, Oscar Gonzalez and Arthur Schwartz photograph
P.S.A.L. basketball game photograph
A. Alvarez photograph
Sikh Festival photograph
asiam, May 1998; photographs
Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, Center for Korean American Culture performers photograph
Courtney Goto, “Testimony: Japanese American Voices of Liberation” photograph
Kathryn Freed and Harriet Fields photograph
Honi Klein and Deputy Mayor Randy Levine photograph
Eighth Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival photograph
Japanese-American hip-hop dancers photograph
Korean merchants present awards photograph; Edith D’Addario, Kathryn Posin, Gerald Arpino and Jonathan Fanton
photograph
Chung Wha Hung, New York Immigration Coalition photograph
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
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
Lora Jo Foo
Ford Foundation, 2002
Photograph
Russell C. Leong
UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2002
Photographs
Ronnie Lipton
How Design Books, 2002
Book cover photograph credit
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
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
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
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
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
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
Joann Faung Jean Lee
The New Press, 2008
Corky talks about Chinatown
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, 2008
Photograph
Edited by Tram Nguyen
Beacon Press, 2009
A quote by Corky
Joyce Mendelsohn
Columbia University Press, 2009
Photograph
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
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
Scott D. Seligman
Viking, 2016
Acknowledgment
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 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
Paula Yoo
WW Norton, 2021
Vincent Chin protest march photograph
Asian American Histories of the United States
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Beacon Press, 2022
The Racial Railroad
Julia H. Lee
NYU Press, 2022
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