The Late GM Lee Kiang Ker started to learn kung fu from his father at the age of seven. In time, he became the chief instructor and medical practitioner in his community. At age seventeen, his father sent him to study further at the White Crane Temple (Bai He An) under a monk called "Nine-dots Monk." The White Crane temple only teached Fang Chi Niang White Crane.Late GM Lee stayed in the temple for four years then he came back home to assist his father teaching White Crane and practicing herbal medicine.

At the age of 28, Lee Kiang-Ker moved to Singapore where he stayed there for six years. He then moved to Kuching, east Malaysia. A year later, he opened the “Wu Ing Tong” (Martial Heroes Association) kung fu school. Several years later, he moved to Sibu. Eventually he set up schools in several communities in east Malaysia including: Kuching, Sibu, Sarikei, and Bintulu.

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In 1967, the first South East Asian Kung Fu Tournament was held in Singapore. Lee Kiang-Ker’s kung fu brother, Lee Wen-Huang, came from China and competed. Lee Wen-Huang had studied with Lee Kiang-Ker under Lee Mah-Saw. He won first place in combat. He then settled in Singapore. In 1973, a White Crane student representing Sarawak (east Malaysia) went to compete in the third South East Asian Tournament where he won second place in combat.
 

Grandmaster Lee King-Ker retired in 1987 leaving his son, Sifu Lee Joo Chian, the leadership of the head school in Sibu, east Malaysia.
 

Some of Lee Kiang-Ker’s students have opened clubs outside of the orient; for instance, Grandmaster Augustin Wu. Grandmaster Wu moved to Canada in 1976. At the behest of fellow martial artists, he began to teach White Crane classes in Montreal’s Concordia University in 1982. The same year, the first Canadian Shaolin White Crane Academy was established. Nine years later, Grandmaster Wu opened a second academy in Mississauga, Ontario. Sifu Ngu kept close links with White Crane’s leader Sifu Loo Joo Chian until his recent passing in July 2020. This relationship helped actively promote the White Crane style by accepting several Canadian students into his home, and by accepting an offer to visit Canada in 1990.
 

Although the four styles of Fukien White Crane are rarely seen outside the Orient, they can now be found in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia as well as in select locations in the United States, England, Australia, and Canada.