Lee's elder sister, well-known therapist Lee Kai-min, recounts that her mother left her home in northeast China when she was 12 to escape the invading Japanese army. Wang "raised herself on her own," became a student in exile, and graduated with top honors from Southeast Women's Physical Education College in Shanghai.
李開復五姐、知名心理諮商師李開敏表示，為了躲避日軍侵略，母親王雅清 12 歲就從東北離家，成了流亡學生，「獨自一人養大自己」，並以優異成績畢業於上海東南體專。