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Richard Lee (李正三)

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Richard Lee (李正三)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Richard Lee
  • Chinese: 李正三
  • Era: 1939
  • Geography: 台灣台南
  • Core roles: entrepreneur
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. President of The Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club (大紐約區海外台灣人筆會會長) 2014-2015

Education

  • National Taiwan Normal University — 1964 — B.S.
  • University of Pittsburgh — 1970 — M.S.

Employment

  • Genroku Japanese Restaurant — 1974-1987
  • Shogun 18, 22, 27 Japanese Restaurant — 1983-now

Family

  • Wife: A-Hsueh Lee
  • Son: Jack Lee
  • Son: Howard Lee
  • Father: - ;Mother:-

Role in the Community

  • Fourth president of the Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club (大紐約區海外台灣人筆會): the pen-club ten-year history records he took office in early 2015 as 4th president, after 林興隆 (2nd) and 郭正昭 (3rd), succeeded by 陳欽明 (5th) — see 筆會十年. His TAH-listed term 2014–2015 vs the club history’s 2015 assumption of office: HOLD: minor conflict, not auto-merged.

  • Author of the memoir 「七十回顧—輕舟已過萬重山」, listed in the pen club’s publication catalog and honored in the club history among member-authored books — see 七十回顧.

  • Author of 吹響北美台獨號角的「費城四傑」— 楊東傑醫師與北美台獨運動話從頭 — see 費城四傑.

  • His restaurant career (Genroku, Shogun) is documented in his own account 李正三的餐飲業生涯 — see 餐飲業生涯, and the Shogun chain itself (first Japanese-food chain restaurant in New Jersey, 1984) is recorded separately — see 將軍日本餐館 97.

  • A 228 survivor family (228受難家屬): his story of gratitude and resilience was written up by 楊遠薰 — see 知恩與惜福.

  • Donated personal archives: Collection of the Richard Cheng-San Lee 李正三的收藏 — see 李家收藏.

  • Essayist in the movement record: his memoir piece 西遷記 (published 2020-02) — see 721. 西遷記 — and his piece 紀念228在紐約, published in 台美人顧台灣 #14 (2015-03) — see 紀念228在紐約. Corroborates his NY-area 228 commemoration activism alongside his 228受難家屬 background.

  • Oral-history researcher of the independence movement: his essay 「李天福與蔣廷黻」, describing the 《外交季刊》/「中國死巷」 episode and his view of the Chiang-Tsong-yu rebuttal, was reprinted in 《自由的呼喚》 (李天福編, 前衛社 2000-12) and is cited in the 盧主義 account — see Ourjourneys126. Corroborates his standing as a movement-record author beyond restaurant memoirs.

  • Memoirist of his own career: 「紐澤西的將軍日本餐廳」 (2014-09) — see 將軍日本餐廳 — and 「無心插柳柳成蔭: 我的餐飲業生涯」 (2014) — see 無心插柳柳成蔭 — first-person accounts of the Shogun/Genroku restaurant years, complementing the buiness4 record above.

  • Essayist on friends and culture: 「廖修平教授的藝術歷程」 (2015-05) honoring printmaker 廖修平 — see 廖修平藝術歷程 — and 「相知相惜五十年——緬懷至友林忠勝兄」 (2015-11) — see 相知相惜五十年 — a fifty-year friendship tribute to 林忠勝.

From the record

  • 2014-10-04 — TAH encyclopedia entry 45. Richard Lee 李正三 (bibliographic record; full text in vault) — see 45. Richard Lee 李正三.
  • 2015-12-10 — TAH encyclopedia entry 98. Mr. Cheng San Lee 李正三, New Jersey / Famous Restaurant owner — see 98. Mr. Cheng San Lee 李正三.
  • 2018-12-02 — TAH encyclopedia entry 201. Cheng-San Lee 李正三 — see 201. Cheng-San Lee 李正三.
  • 2025-11-15 — 孟晚舟案 verdict coverage quotes 李溢 (Richard Lee), a Vancouver criminal-defense lawyer — name collision, NOT 李正三; recorded as dated disambiguation, reciprocal link repaired — see 孟晚舟案 2025-11-15.
  • 2026-01-12 — 苑剛分屍案 verdict coverage quotes the same 李溢 (Richard Lee), Vancouver lawyer — name collision, NOT 李正三; recorded as dated disambiguation, reciprocal link repaired — see 苑剛分屍案 2026-01-12.

Sources

SKIP 2026-09-15 (slice 09150700-24): corpus re-grep (works/ + articles/) returned the same hit set already absorbed above (private-collections-91, buiness4, 45-richard-lee, ourjourneys12, publications21, 98-mr-cheng-san-lee) — no new memoir material; page already deepened by a prior slice.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160109-19): re-grep again returned the identical 6-file hit set — nothing new absorbable.

2026-09-16 (slice 09160316-17): re-grep 李正三/Cheng-San across works+articles surfaced two previously unlinked records — 721. 西遷記 (my-stories-721) and 紀念228在紐約 (台美人顧台灣 #14) — absorbed into Role in the Community above.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160400-10): re-grep returned the identical 6-file hit set (private-collections-91, buiness4, 45-richard-lee, ourjourneys12, publications21, 98-mr-cheng-san-lee) — all already absorbed above; nothing new absorbable.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160500-7): re-grep (李正三/Cheng-San/Cheng San/Richard Lee) returned the same 6-file hit set — all already absorbed into Role in the Community; nothing new absorbable.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160600-4): re-grep across works+articles returned the identical 6-file hit set - all already absorbed into Role in the Community; nothing new absorbable.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160700-1): re-grep 李正三/Cheng-San/Cheng San/Richard Lee returned the same hit set (private-collections-91, buiness4, 45-richard-lee, ourjourneys12, publications21, 98-mr-cheng-san-lee, 費城四傑, mystories332, my-stories-721, 紀念228在紐約) — all already absorbed into Role in the Community; nothing new absorbable.

SKIP 2026-10-12 (slice 10110000-3): re-grep (李正三/Cheng-San/Cheng San/Richard Lee) across all 5 corpus dirs returned the same already-absorbed hit set (works: private-collections-91, buiness4, ourjourneys12, publications21, 98/201-cheng-san-lee, 費城四傑, mystories332, my-stories-721, 紀念228在紐約, mystories254/359/87, ourjourneys17/126) — nothing new absorbable. The two articles/taiwanjustice-net/ hits remain the different Richard Lee (李溢, Vancouver lawyer), still not absorbed. Surname-variant grep (李正X) surfaced only 李正福 (Prof. Cheng-Few Lee) and 李正明 (Jimmy Li) — distinct persons, not this subject.

SKIP 2026-10-12 (slice 10120315-2): re-grep (李正三/Cheng-San/Cheng San/Richard Lee + surname-only 正三 across all 5 corpus dirs) returned the identical already-absorbed hit set — nothing new absorbable. The two articles/taiwanjustice-net/ hits remain 李溢 (Vancouver lawyer), not this subject; their mis-links to [[people/richard-lee|Richard Lee]] still stand as a registry cleanup candidate.

2026-10-13 (slice 10121400-3): re-grep (李正三/Cheng-San/Cheng San/Richard Lee + Shogun/Genroku across all 5 corpus dirs) returned the identical already-absorbed works hit set — one new linkable record surfaced: the Shogun chain’s own work page 97. 將軍日本餐館 in New Jersey (1984, first Japanese-food chain restaurant in NJ), linked into Role in the Community above. No new biographical material.

SKIP 2026-10-10 (slice 10100315-31): re-grep (李正三/Cheng-San/Cheng San/Richard Lee) across all 5 corpus dirs returned the same already-absorbed works hit set plus two new hits in articles/taiwanjustice-net/ (2025 孟晚舟案, 2026 苑剛分屍案 verdict coverage). Both refer to 李溢 (Richard Lee), a Vancouver criminal-defense lawyer — a DIFFERENT person, not 李正三. NOT absorbed (name collision, not our subject). Flag: both articles’ ## Subjects sections mis-link [[people/richard-lee|Richard Lee]] — registry cleanup candidate to retarget or remove those subject links.

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