Daryl Joji Maeda is the writer of “Like Water: A Cultural Historical past of Bruce Lee.” He’ll lead a digital dialogue of the guide at 6 p.m. Sept. 15 at Chaucer’s Books.
Daryl Joji Maeda, writer of “Like Water: A Cultural Historical past of Bruce Lee,” will lead a digital dialogue of the guide at 6 p.m. Sept. 15 hosted by Chaucer’s Books.
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Practically half a century after his tragic demise, Bruce Lee stays an inspiring image of innovation and willpower, with a permanent legacy as the primary Asian American world celebrity.
An Asian and Asian-American icon of unimaginable stature and affect, Mr. Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences drawn from world wide. Uncommonly decided, bodily gifted and artistically good, Mr. Lee rose to fame as a part of a wave of transpacific globalization that bridged the almost 7,000 miles between Hong Kong and California.
“Like Water” unpacks Mr. Lee’s world impression, linking his legendary standing as a martial artist, actor and director to his continuous traversals throughout the newly interconnected Asia and America.
Mr. Maeda’s multifaceted account of Mr. Lee’s legacy traces how actions and migrations throughout the Pacific Ocean structured the cultures Mr. Lee inherited, the milieu he occupied, the martial artwork he developed, the movies he made and the world he left behind.
A novel mix of cultural historical past and biography, “Like Water’‘ finds the cultural strands that Mr. Lee intertwined in his rise to a brand new form of world stardom. Transferring from the gold rush in California and the British occupation of Hong Kong, to the Chilly Struggle and the deployment of American troops throughout Asia, Mr. Maeda builds depth and complexity to this larger-than-life determine. His cultural chronology of Mr. Lee reveals him to be each a product of his time and a harbinger of a extra linked future.
Mr. Maeda is dean and vice provost of undergraduate schooling and professor of ethnic research on the College of Colorado, Boulder. He’s the writer of “Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America” and “Rethinking the Asian American Motion.”
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