[1] He was until July 2020, Director of the French research Institute for Transtextual and Transcultural Studies based at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.

[2] Lee was previously Chair Professor of Chinese and Transcultural Studies and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong.

[3][6] Lee's dual-language biographical novel 第八位中國商人同消失咗嘅海員／The Eighth Chinese Merchant and the Disappeared Seamen was published in 2022 by Hong Kong's 手民出版社 Typesetter Press [1].

[7] His China's Lost Decade: The Politics and Poetics of the 1980s (Tigre de Papier, 2009; 2011) was republished as a revised edition in 2012 by Zephyr Press.

In 2005 he wrote and presented BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature "Liver Birds and Laundrymen"[9] in which he revisited the story of Europe's oldest Chinatown, in Liverpool (UK), and interrogated dominant British perceptions of the Chinese.