Tunney F. Lee Memorial Lecture Series
Tunney Lee recognized at the 40th Annual Preservation Awards
In memory of 2002 Sojourner Award recipient and our longtime friend and collaborator Professor Tunney Fee Lee (李燦輝, 1931-2020), CHSNE has established the CHSNE Tunney F. Lee Memorial Lecture series to continue his lifelong work of preserving and promoting the history of Chinese Americans. The series will feature speakers on various topics related to the history of Chinese Americans and lectures/seminars will be held in locations in the Boston area and/or virtually based on speaker availability and health regulation at the time. Tunney himself has kindly given many interesting talks on the history of Chinese and Chinatown in Boston over the years so we see this as a fitting tribute to his legacy of historical preservation.
A giant in the field of urban planning and architecture, Tunney was the head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT, founding head of the Department of Architecture at Chinese University in Hong Kong and Chief of Planning and Design at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The history of Chinese in Boston was close to his heart as his great grandfather arrived in Boston in 1892 and he himself arrived in Boston in 1938 at the age of 7. In recent years, Tunney led the multimedia Boston Chinatown Atlas project in partnership with CHSNE and many others which documented the development and changes of the neighborhood over the years. At the time of his death, Tunney was working on a book about Boston Chinatown and today CHSNE director and Tunney’s collaborator David Chang continues to work on the extensive collection of files, photos and writings left by Tunney with the objective to complete and publish his unfinished work.
York Lo, CHSNE Tunney Lee Memorial Lecture Series Committee Chair
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Tunney Lee (seated) at the CHSNE office in 2012 with his CHSNE colleagues (left to right): Nancy Eng, York Lo, Stephanie Fan, Shauna Lo (Photo credit: Chutze Chou); Tunney Lee with CHSNE board members. Tunney Lee recognized for his work on the Boston Chinatown Atlas
