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 ...

Discover Bruce Lee’s journey from his 1940 birth to becoming the 'King of Kung Fu.' Explore his early life, Jeet Kune Do, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not only was Bruce Lee a fierce fighter, but he also had a charming presence, according to Linda Lee Cadwell, his wife of nine years. In the 656-page biography “Bruce Lee: A Life,” written by Matthew ...

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 ...

What happened on the day martial arts expert and Hollywood star Bruce Lee died in 1973 at age 32? Matthew Polly may have an idea. Nearly 45 years after the film and fighting legend's sudden demise, ...

Lee became a chest-thumping source of nationalistic pride to Chinese around the world with his characters who defended the Chinese against oppressors in a series of movies in the early 1970s. But his ...

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 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 ...

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 ...