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 ...

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 ...

Jeff Chang explores why, 50 years after his death, Bruce Lee remains ‘a hero to people all around the world’ in Water Mirror ...

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 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 ...

The legend of martial arts film star Bruce Lee has reached mythological proportions, so it's no surprise his untimely death sparked conspiracy theories. Especially because the official cause of Lee's ...

In Bruce Lee, CU's Daryl Maeda sees a symbol of the modern world — and the subject of his next book. Somehow it had escaped Maeda’s notice: The Museum of Modern Art in New York was hosting a ...

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 ...

That’s not the type of story one typically hears about Lee. Since he died at age 32, his legend has grown to such mythological levels that one martial artist calls him “kung fu Jesus.” A new biography ...