Английская Википедия:Helie Lee
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Helie Lee (born August 29, 1964) is a Korean American writer and university lecturer [1] who has also made a documentary film.
Early life
Lee was born on August 29, 1964, in Seoul, South Korea. Her family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada when she was four years old. A year later, they emigrated to the United States, settling in California. She attended El Camino Real High School and graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.[2]
Activism
Lee became active in raising awareness of human rights issues for North Korean defectors. In 2002, she testified before the Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Immigration to urge increased American support for North Korean refugees.[3]
Books
Still Life With Rice
Still Life With Rice is a novel written by Helie Lee, and published in 1997 by Simon & Schuster.[4] It is based on accounts of suffering due to war and child abuse. Although it is written by Helie Lee, the book is mostly written from the viewpoint of Lee's grandmother, Hongyong Baek. In the book, Lee expresses her annoyance for the way her mother and grandmother think she is too Americanized, and should be more Korean. It was described by Booklist as having "great narrative power".[5]
In the Absence of Sun
In her second book, In the Absence of Sun (1998), Lee recounts her family's experiences in helping her uncle escape from North Korea.[6]
Other works
In 2010, she released a documentary called Macho Like Me, in which she "doffs all signifiers of femininity to live as a man". A review in the LA Weekly panned the "cutsey one–woman-show framing device" but stated that the experiences that "upend [Lee's] preconceptions, mak[e] for engrossing viewing."[7]
Selected works
- Still Life With Rice, Simon & Schuster, 1997.
- In the Absence of Sun, Harmony, 1998.
References
- ↑ Profile in Courage People Magazine. June 17, 2002Vol. 57No. 23 By Galina Espinoza
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Testimony of Ms. Helie Lee June 21, 2002
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Korean-American remembers how she helped family out of North Korea Шаблон:Webarchive Southern California Public Radio KPPC interview with Susan Valot July 3, 2009
- ↑ Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival: Subculture Within a Subculture LA Weekly Ernest Hardy. Apr 29 2010.
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