Jeff Chang

How did Bruce Lee transform from an ordinary immigrant into the global hero of the underdog?

Watch the video here!

Seattle
Nov 13
Shannon Lee & 2 of Bruce’s closest friends: Doug Palmer + Sue Ann Kay

Tickets now on sale! 

townhallseattle.org/event/jeff-c...  
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It’s Banned Book Week. A time to call out the real enemies of freedom. 

Our fight is not just to stop the banning of books. It is not just to preserve our right to speak.
 
Our fight is to secure democracy and ensure the freedom of all of us to live.

Join us now.

THEY CALL US BRUCE, the podcast @angryasianman.bsky.social
and I have hosted since 2017, is celebrating our 300th—and what better way than a LIVE convo with longtime pal Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social on his fantastic new book WATER MIRROR ECHO, about our shared inspiration—the great Bruce Lee!

Ah man it’s great to reconnect here! Appreciate all you’ve done and are doing 🙏🏽 ✊🏽

Enjoy! Let me know what you think!

Love to hear what you think!

Thx for your kind words 🙏🏽 hope you like the rest of it!

Congratulations Author Jeff Chang! I am thrilled for his new book called Water, Mirror, Echo : Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang ( Wonderful review in the New York Times )
@zentronix.bsky.social @therealshannonlee @brucelee @bruceleefoundation #watermirrorecho #brucelee

Currently reading: "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America" by Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social

At the end of the second week that Water Mirror Echo has been out and whew! Thank you. I'm feeling the love over here. 

If you’re in the Bay or LA, lots more great events up in the next seven days!

Visit: watermirrorecho.net

How did Bruce Lee empower people through his films?

Here’s the first of four shorts taken from a conversation I did about #WaterMirrorEcho for @thelavinagency

Watch the full interview here
youtu.be/9hFMl6WhdqM?...

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 thank you!!!

TFW you wake up to a New York Times book review by Jennifer Szalai and it reads like this!

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Just sitting here in gratitude to everyone.

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 

Gift link here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

#Watermirrorecho

You know why action movies look so freaking cool now? Bruce Lee.

Watch the whole reel right here!

This is the sixth in a ten-episode series, *Ten Ways To See Bruce Lee*, that accompanies the new book, Water Mirror Echo. Available now! 

watermirrorecho.net

#WaterMirrorEcho

And Ned, I'm sending you lots of love for your folks. Thinking of you today.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 thank you Ned!!! So appreciated!

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

Morning walk

It’s been an incredible pub week for #WaterMirrorEcho in New York City. And the events keep rolling!

Here’s all the info for tonight in NYC Chinatown & next week in Berkeley and SF Chinatown.

Deets at watermirrorecho.net

It’s pub day! 

Thank you for all of your support. I can’t wait for yall to see this book. 

Special mahalo to everyone @YuandMeBooks.

Today we celebrate!

#WaterMirrorEcho

Less than 24 hours to pub day! 

Water Mirror Echo “is the perfect match of author and subject!”

Thank you to all who have read the book so far — we can’t wait for all of you to jump in tmw and beyond. 

For all the links to the podcasts + articles, check my Substack: zentronix.substack.com

Join us for a VIP reception to benefit the Bruce Lee Chinatown statue effort!
Then rock in the streets of Chinatown at the ONE FAMILY BLOCK PARTY with the Bay’s finest DJs, MCs + martial artists!

10/4 1-4pm Waverly Place, SF Chinatown

Info: CHSA.org + watermirrorecho.net

#WaterMirrorEcho

Thank you Amy! Both us Jeffs are thankful to you for all your work! Hope you are well!

Stanford IDA presents Jeff Chang and beloved Stanford Professor David Palumbo-Liu, the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of Comparative Literature, in conversation on October 9th! 

Register now at: watermirrorecho.net

#WaterMirrorEcho

Litquake & Bay Area Book Festival present Jeff Chang and W. Kamau Bell on Oct 10th at the legendary @4StarTheater followed by a screening of “Fist of Fury”!

Doors at 6:30pm for book signing/sales. $18 adv / $20 door
Very limited seating. Get your tickets now: watermirrorecho.net
#WaterMirrorEcho

How Bruce Lee Helped Shape Asian American Culture KQED's Forum · Episode

🎧 Listen to the podcast!

@zentronix.bsky.social spoke with @alexis.madrigal.bsky.social about Bruce Lee's rise as an action star, his impact on the creation of Asian American culture and his special history in the Bay Area.

🔗: buff.ly/1sVkMAO

Join us for #WaterMirrorEcho pub week in NYC next week!
Sept 24 — Two Dragons in Hollywood, Anna May Wong and Bruce Lee, with Katie Gee Salisbury

Sept 26 — Yu and Me Books Presents me, Hua Hsu, and DJ YiuYiu and the Chinatown Records crew 

Register now for these free events: watermirrorecho.net

Poetics of Fighting Jeff Chang’s new biography, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, explores the internal and external conflicts of the influential martial artist.

WED at 9AM:

@zentronix.bsky.social joins to talk about Bruce Lee's rise as an action star, his impact on the creation of Asian American culture and his special history in the Bay Area.

❓ How has Bruce Lee impacted your life?

Bruce Lee had an Asian American accent. Not everyone liked it.

I talk to James Chen, the voice of the Water Mirror Echo audiobook, about how some people’s reactions led to a turning point in Bruce’s career. 

Watch it here! #WaterMirrorEcho is out next Tues, September 23!

watermirrorecho.net

This event is on October 8th at 7pm*