Forensic scientist Henry Lee to marry Chinese entrepreneur a year after wife’s death
- Eighty-year-old Chinese-American investigator will tie the knot with Jiang Xiaping in a ceremony in Connecticut next week
- Pair first met in 2004 and three years later Lee helped Jiang save her business after swindlers targeted it
Renowned Chinese-American forensic scientist Henry Chang-Yu Lee, 80, is to marry an entrepreneur whose business he helped rescue after it was swindled.
The wedding of 80-year-old Lee and Jiang Xiaping, 62, who is chairwoman of garment manufacturer Jiadi Group, will take place in Litchfield County, Connecticut, on December 1, Taiwan’s United Daily Newspaper reported on Thursday.
Jiang has been a close friend of Lee for more than 10 years and had been working as his special assistant since his wife, Margaret Soong Meow Lee, died at the age of 78 in August last year after a brief illness.
Lee and Jiang met at a trade fair in the United States in 2004 and became friends as Yangzhou, the city in Jiangsu where her company is based, is a one-and-a-half hour drive from Lee’s birthplace of Rugao.
In 2007 Jiang’s company nearly went under after an American company swindled large sums from her, but she was able to recover her losses, thanks in part to Lee’s help.
