03550cam a2200349 i 4500 2698233417 TxAuBib 20260305120000.0 260107s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025012929 9780358726470 hardcover 0358726476 hardcover (OCoLC)1482606745 TxAuBib rda Chang, Jeff, author. Water mirror echo : Bruce Lee and the making of Asian America / Jeff Chang. First edition. New York : Mariner Books, [2025] 540 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-522) and index. Introduction: The lives of Bruce Lee -- War child, 1940-1950 -- The orphan, 1950-1959 -- learning America, 1959-1961 -- The man who thinks he can, 1961-1962 -- Simplicity directness freedom, 1962-1964 -- A bigger stage, 1964-1965 -- Broken mirrors, 1966-1967 -- Warrior state of mind, 1967-1969 -- Above and below Sunset, 1968-1970 --Action action, 1970-1972 -- The new hero, 1971-1972 -- Wath me now, 1972-1973 -- Afterlives, 1973-now. "More than a half-century after his passing, Bruce Lee is as towering a figure to people around the world as ever. On his path to becoming a global icon, he popularized martial arts in the West, became a bridge to people and cultures from the East, and just as he was set to conquer Hollywood once and for all, he died of cerebral edema at age thirty-two. It's no wonder that Bruce Lee's legend has only bloomed in the decades since. Yet, in so many ways, his legend has eclipsed the man. Forgotten is the stark reality of the baby boy born in segregated San Francisco, who spent his youth in war-ravaged, fight-crazy Hong Kong. Forgotten is the curious teenager who found his way back to America, where he embraced West Coast counterculture and meshed it with the Asian worldviews and philosophies that reared him. Forgotten is the man whose very presence broke barriers and helped shape the idea of what being an Asian in America is, at the very dawn of Asian America. Water Mirror Echo-a title inspired by Bruce Lee's own way of moving, being and responding to the world-is a page-turning and powerful reminder. At the helm is Jeff Chang, the award-winning author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, whose writing on culture, politics, the arts and music have made him one of the most acclaimed and distinctive voices of our time. In his hands, Bruce Lee's story brims with authenticity. Now, based on in-depth interviews with Lee's closest intimates, thousands of newly available personal documents, and featuring dozens of unseen photographs from the family's archive, Chang does the nearly impossible. He reveals the man behind the enduring iconography and stirringly shows Lee's growing fame ushering in something that's turned out to be even more enduring: the creation of Asian America"-- Provided by publisher. 20260305. Lee, Bruce, 1940-1973. Asian American actors Biography. Martial artists United States Biography. Asian Americans Social conditions. TXKIP