The Life Journey of Wu-Lang Lee, Ph.D.

By Wu-Lang Lee

Introduction

This memoir attempts to delineate the journey of my life. It will be brief, but enough for readers to appreciate the life journey I traveled from Taiwan to the U.S.

I was born on January 30, 1942 in a small farming village in central Taiwan. In 2012, I will be 70 years old. According to the Taiwanese way of counting, however, I will be 72 years old. Why there is two years difference? This is the cultural difference between the East and the West. I was born on December 15, 1941 according to the lunar New Year, but according to Western calendar, my birthday was January 30, 1942. The Taiwanese tradition is that a baby borne in a given year will be one year old automatically; regardless of whether the baby was borne in January or December of the year. Since I was one year old in 1941, I became 2 years old when the lunar New Year 1942 arrived. So, I can be counted as 70 or 72 years old, depending upon how you counted it — the Taiwanese way or the American way.

This memoir is primarily for my children and grandchildren. They were all born in the United States. They might not familiar with the social and cultural background and environment in which I grew up. It is my hope that this short memoir will help them understand how I became who I am today. It is also my hope that the lessons learned in my journey traveled from Taiwan to the U.S. can also be learned by them and benefited them as well in their life journey as they established their life and career in the United State of America.

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From a Taiwan Country Boy to U.S. Treasury Manager – The Life Journey of Wu-Lang Lee, Ph.D.