Lee (Chinese name: 李競;[1] pinyin: Lǐ Jìng; POJ: Lí Kēng; born March 15, 1976) is an American journalist who previously worked for The New York Times.

[2] She is the co-founder and president of the literary studio Plympton[3] and a producer of The Search for General Tso, which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.

[8] Lee was born on March 15, 1976, in New York City, to immigrants from Kinmen, a group of islands off the coast of China's Fujian province governed by Taiwan.

[14] She interned at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and The New York Times during college.

[citation needed] Lee wrote a book about the history of Chinese food in the United States and around the world, titled The Fortune Cookie Chronicles,[10] documenting the process on her blog.

[18][19] Lee has served on the advisory panel for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's "News Challenge", and has assisted the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks dealing with publicity.