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Lee Moore
Lee Moore was born and raised in Jonesboro, Georgia, the home of Gone with the Wind, just a twenty minute drive south of Atlanta.
Lee came to the University of Georgia interested in literature and Asia. While an undergrad, he studied Chinese and Japanese and majored in Comparative Literature. He spent two years in China, one from 2006-2007 and another from 2009-2010. During this time, he spent a lot of time studying Mandarin and a little time working. He’s lived in Beijing, Kunming, Qingdao and Nanjing and has traveled extensively throughout the country.
Lee also just finished up a year in Taiwan, studying Chinese literature (in Chinese) in Taipei. During his time in Taiwan, he wrote a blog documenting life and travel in Taiwan:
In the fall, after he and Galen finish the Silk Road Hitchhiker project, Lee will be beginning a Ph.D. program in Chinese literature at the University of Oregon.
Like Galen, Lee is an avid outdoorsman. Lee hikes, cycles, kayaks, surfs and has even dabbled in rock climbing. Though he had long been interested in it, he traces the real break-out of his love affair with the outdoors back to the summer of his freshman year, when he worked cleaning bathrooms in Yellowstone National Park. During that summer, on his weekends off, Lee hiked three hundred miles in Yellowstone’s backcountry, falling in love with America’s Best Idea.
With Lee’s background in Chinese and writing, Lee will be the team’s mouth. He’ll be the one who does most of the talking with Chinese folks and he will be writing the posts on the blog that stand beside Galen’s photography.