Bruce Lee died a month before the release of Enter the Dragon (1973), the movie which turned him into an international icon. His fame was almost entirely posthumous. Unlike James Dean or Marilyn ...

In spring 2024, Berkeley author and activist Jeff Chang had just completed the first draft of his Bruce Lee biography, "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America," when he called in ...

Bruce Lee was training a friend one day when he did something unexpected. The star of the classic film, “Enter the Dragon,” was already known for his fanatical fitness regimen. He didn’t smoke or ...

Bruce Lee is getting a belated hero’s welcome in China, with the country’s state broadcaster set to air a 50-part prime-time series on the late kung fu star. Lee became a chest-thumping source of ...

An exuberant new biography by Jeff Chang charts the action star’s life and legacy as a breakout Asian American celebrity who paved the way for others. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Jeff Chang spent years working on his book about Bruce Lee. He recently spoke with our colleague Peter Larsen about “Water Mirror Echo,” and here he answers the Book Pages Q&A about his reading life, ...

The notion that Bruce Lee may have died from a condition called hyponatremia is an unproven hypothesis put forward by medical researchers. Officially, martial arts and film legend Bruce Lee died in ...

Bruce Lee was born into a performing family; His mother gave birth to him in the year of the dragon on Nov. 27, 1940 in San Francisco’s Chinatown, while his parents were on tour with a Chinese opera ...

Was Bruce Lee really Jewish? The new Bruce Lee biography, “Bruce Lee: A Life”, comes with a few surprising revelations. Written by Matthew Polly and published on June 5, 2018 by Simon & Schuster ...

Beijing - Bruce Lee is getting a belated hero's welcome in China, with the country's state broadcaster set to air a 50-part prime-time series on the late kung fu star. Lee became a chest-thumping ...