Lee Peng Fei, Allen

Lee Peng Fei continued his studies in the US after graduation from secondary school. Six months after his arrival in the States, Lee began learning English in Dayton, Ohio. To accelerate his progress, he tried not to interact with the local Chinese community. He also joined a fraternity to know more about the local culture so that he could blend into main-stream American life.

Title	Do in Rome as Rome does: ''Only a China boy joined American Fraternity.''
Date	04/10/2010
Subject	Industry
Duration	1m
Language	Cantonese
Material Type	Audio
Collection	Oral History Archives
Repository	Hong Kong Memory Project
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Accession No.	LKF-LPF-HLT-001

Lee joined Ampex in 1970.He was promoted to General Manager after 2 years of satisfactory performance. He became the first Chinese to have ever been appointed General Manager – a groundbreaking move at the time. Lee established a design department for Ampex and began to hire local electronic engineering talents who had returned from overseas education. This helped Hong Kong’s budding electronic industry train a sizeable number of engineers.

Title	Electronics Talented: ''I am the first Chinese General Manager.''
Date	04/10/2010
Subject	Industry
Duration	53s
Language	Cantonese
Material Type	Audio
Collection	Oral History Archives
Repository	Hong Kong Memory Project
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Accession No.	LKF-LPF-HLT-002

Lee joined Ampex in 1970 as Test Engineering Manager and was promoted to General Manager after two years. He since focused on labour management, determined to dispel the entrenched myth that engineers could never be good managers.

Title	Break the Rule: ''I have to break this myth.''
Date	04/10/2010
Subject	Industry
Duration	41s
Language	Cantonese
Material Type	Audio
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Repository	Hong Kong Memory Project
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Accession No.	LKF-LPF-HLT-003

Lee had been a manager at Ampex for many years, and he thought he had made larger achievement at management position more than what he had done at the technical side. He would depend upon his colleagues to keep himself updated on the latest technologies in electronics.

Title	Management-oriented: ''Really I don't have much professional knowledge.''
Date	04/10/2010
Subject	Industry
Duration	37s
Language	Cantonese
Material Type	Audio
Collection	Oral History Archives
Repository	Hong Kong Memory Project
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Accession No.	LKF-LPF-HLT-004

Lee mentioned there were three significant stages in his life, namely being an engineer, a politician and a media practitioner. He maintained that each transition to a new occupation was unplanned. The challenges he faced at each transition had spiced up his life.

Title	Don't be afraid to change: ''For a meaningful life, you have to take on new challenge.''
Date	04/10/2010
Subject	Industry
Duration	1m5s
Language	Cantonese
Material Type	Audio
Collection	Oral History Archives
Repository	Hong Kong Memory Project
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Accession No.	LKF-LPF-HLT-005

Lee believed that the economic return of manufacturing work was low, yet work hours were usually long. It required tenacity and a sense of preparedness for rainy days. Lee especially admired industrialist Leo Tang Hsiang-chien and praised Tang for his insistence on manufacturing rather than property development. Tang also treated his employees generously and was audacious in investing in new product development such as printed circuit boards.

Title	Industrial Spirit: ''It is never easy to be an industrialist.''
Date	04/10/2010
Subject	Industry
Duration	1m6s
Language	Cantonese
Material Type	Audio
Collection	Oral History Archives
Repository	Hong Kong Memory Project
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Accession No.	LKF-LPF-HLT-006

Lee deplored the ups and downs in life, yet he was delighted by his political career. He believed in the survival of the fittest and thought that he himself was good at adapting to different environments. Contented with his children who had all grown up and his happy family, he wished he could enjoy the rest of his life.

Title	Happy Go Lucky: ''My motto is that happy are whose who are contented.''
Date	04/10/2010
Subject	Industry
Duration	1m13s
Language	Cantonese
Material Type	Audio
Collection	Oral History Archives
Repository	Hong Kong Memory Project
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Accession No.	LKF-LPF-HLT-007