1) Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-American film director known for his trilogy of films about Chinese families produced in the 1990s. 2) Lee studied theatre, film, and television at university in Taiwan before moving to the US, where he directed several award-winning short films and worked in television. 3) Lee's trilogy from the 1990s includes Pushing Hands, about an elderly Taiwanese man adjusting to life in New York City with his son's family, The Wedding Banquet, about a Taiwanese immigrant hiding his sexuality from his parents, and Eat Drink Man Woman, about the relationships between a father and his daughters. The films dealt with themes of generational and cultural differences