Chinese Canadian Museum
51 East Pender Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(Next post on Wednesday: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Chinese Canadian Museum, Vancouver
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Helena Kuo’s “I’ve Come a Long Way”
D. Appleton-Century, 1942
Dust Jacket courtesy of Bolerium Books
Further Reading
The China Weekly Review, January 20, 1940
Evening Star (Washington, DC), September 27, 1942, Charm Important
Vogue’s First Reader (1942), The China You Didn’t Know
Variety, March 1, 1944, Tele Showcase for Morris Agcy.
Westward to Chungking (1944)
Giants of China (1944)
This Week Magazine, June 15, 1947, On Making Mistakes
This Week Magazine, March 21, 1948, I’ve Made Up My Mind
This Week Magazine, October 3, 1948, My Sister’s Secret
The New York Times, June 13, 1999, Helena Kuo Kingman, 86, Writer on China
(Next post on Wednesday: Chinese Canadian Museum, Vancouver)
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Seong Moy aka Eddy Moy in “The Federal Illustrator” Part 2
Announcing Prize Winners 1938 Annual Exhibit
Grand Prize—Cartoon—$50.00—Mr. Eddy Moy,
413 Robert St., St. Paul, Minn.
Winter 1938–1939
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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
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
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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
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.’”
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
1980s
Jack Chen
Harper & Row, 1980
Four photographs
H. Mark Lai, Joe C. Huang, Don Wong
Chinese Culture Foundation, 1980
Acknowledgment and photographs
East/West, February 27, 1980; Asian American Artists Festival appearance
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
Massachusetts Daily Collegian, November 15, 1982
“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
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
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
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
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
Contact Sheet 80, 1993
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
December 25, 1993
Recipient of the 1993 Asian American Journalists Special Recognition Award
Photographs
Alexandra Bandon
New Discovery, 1994
Cover
Edited by Karin Aguilar-San Juan
South End Press, 1994
Photographs
Vincent N. Parrillo
Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994
self-employed Korean American photograph
Sixth Edition, 2000
Seventh Edition, 2003
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
Photographs
The Villager, November 16, 1994; November 30, 1994; December 7, 1994; December 14, 1994; December 21, 1994
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
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
Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1996
Photographs
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
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
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
Clifford Thompson, Editor
H.W. Wilson Company, 1999
Frank Chin 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
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
Edited by Fred Ho
Big Red Media, 2000
Corky profile and photographs
Eleanor T. Lipat
University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
Photograph
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
Newsletter, East Asian Art & Archaeology, Issue 71, September 2002
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
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
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
Ten: The Literary Magazine for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Volume 9, Issues 1-2, 2004
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
Lisa Harrison and Hugh Villalta
Pearson, 2005
self-employed Korean American photograph
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
Primary Source Edition, 2006
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
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
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
The Times of Northport & East Northport, February 21, 2013
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
Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg
Oxford University Press, 2014
“Chinatown POV: Reflections on September 11th”, two photographs
“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
Photograph
Edited by Carl L. Bankston and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Grey House Publishing/Salem Press, 2015
Frank Chin photograph
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
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
Paula Yoo
WW Norton, 2021
Vincent Chin protest march photograph
Asian American Histories of the United States
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Beacon Press, 2022
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects
Theodore S. Gonzalves
Smithsonian Institution, 2023
Yuri Kochiyama and credit
Tony DelaRosa
John Wiley & Sons, 2023
Corky mentioned
Ava Chin
Penguin, 2024
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