Editing Allen Lee (section)

==Early life and education==
Lee was born on 24 April 1940 in [[Yantai]], [[Shandong]], China to a Chinese businessman. His parents had four children. He followed his family when they moved to Shanghai to evade war and spent most of his childhood there.<ref name="memory"/> His father became a merchant in Shanghai and had represented [[General Motors]], among other US companies in China. He later moved to the United States in 1948. Lee had led an independent life and did not know much about his absent father because they seldom stayed together. Lee knew that his father had married several times, which made him feel rather uneasy.<ref name="memory">{{cite web|title=Lee Peng Fei, Allen|url=http://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/oral_history/All_Items_OH/oha_33/records/index.html|work=Hong Kong Memory}}</ref>

At the age of 14, he was a leader of the [[Communist Youth League of China|Communist Youth League]], and organised marches denouncing the United States because of its involvement in the [[Korean War]].<ref name=interview>Fionnuala McHugh, [http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=&art_id=53243&sid=&con_type=1&d_str=19990620&sear_year=1999 The interview: Allen Lee Peng-fei] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522043826/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=&art_id=53243&sid=&con_type=1&d_str=19990620&sear_year=1999 |date=22 May 2011 }}, [[The Standard (Hong Kong)|The Standard]], 20 June 1999</ref> In May 1954, his mother sent him to Hong Kong where he attended and graduated from Pui Ying Secondary School.<ref name="memory"/> After graduation, he had planned to continue his studies at [[National Taiwan University]] but his father intended for him to go to the United States. Subsequently, he was sent to the United States and began learning English in [[Dayton, Ohio]]. He was later enrolled in the [[University of Michigan]] and studied electronics engineering there.{{cn|date=July 2024}}