"Edwin Mah Lee was born May 5, 1952, in Seattle to immigrants from Toisan, a rural village in China’s southern province of Guangdong. His father was a cook, and his mother a seamstress. They raised Lee and his five siblings in public housing."

https://www.pjstar.com/news/20171217/celebration-of-life-for-san-francisco-mayor-who-died-at-65