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Peter H. Lee


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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Peter H. Lee (1929-) was born in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.A. from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his M.A. from Yale in 1953. Lee went on to study various languages and comparative literatures at universities in Switzerland, Italy, England and Munich, Germany, where he earned his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilian University in 1958. After holding positions at Columbia, Hawaii, and UC Berkeley, Lee came to UCLA in 1987 to begin his distinguished teaching career in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures as a professor of Korean and comparative literature. Professor Lee is an academic pioneer, credited with single-handedly developing the field of Korean literature, especially in a comparative context, in th ...more

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Anthology of Korean Literat...

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A History of Korean Literature

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Modern Korean Literature: A...

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Poems from Korea: From the ...

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The Silence of Love: Twenti...

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Flowers of Fire

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Pine River and Lone Peak: A...

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