Lee C. Lee

Lee Charlotte Lee (July 19, 1935 – April 30, 2006) was a Chinese American psychologist. She was a Professor Emerita of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. Lee was the first woman of Asian ancestry to become a tenured professor at Cornell.

Biography Lee was born in Suzhou, China, in 1935.

While a Fulbright scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1992 through 1994, Lee became the founding director of the Hong Kong-American Center. The mission of the Center is to promote cross-cultural understanding between Hong Kong and American communities.

Lee retired from Cornell in 2004.

In 2006, she died at her home in Ithaca, New York, at the age of 70.

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