

Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
內容簡介
「《Water Mirror Echo》講述了一個男人的非凡故事——塑造他的人與文化,以及他為世界帶來的新可能。如同李小龍本人,Jeff Chang 擁有看見未來的眼光,他的思考與書寫不安於室、跨越鴻溝,幾近預言者般宏大。」
——華許(Hua Hsu),普立茲獎得主、《Stay True:一段回憶錄》作者「這本書既歡慶又深刻,有時更令人心碎。是一項了不起的成就。」
——哈尼夫·阿布杜拉奇布(Hanif Abdurraqib),美國國家圖書獎得主、《There’s Always This Year》《A Little Devil in America》作者
《Water Mirror Echo》 是一本橫跨時代又極具個人情感的文化傳記,書寫傳奇人物 李小龍,同時呈現鮮為人知的「亞裔美國」誕生與崛起的歷史。出自《Can’t Stop Won’t Stop》獲獎作者、當代最敏銳的文化觀察者之一 Jeff Chang 之手。
李小龍辭世超過半世紀,今日仍是全球無數人心中的巨星。他讓武術在西方流行起來,成為東西方文化的橋梁;而就在他即將真正打進好萊塢的關鍵時刻,卻在 32 歲時因腦水腫驟逝。也因此,李小龍的傳奇只不斷擴大,遠遠蓋過了那個真實的男人。
人們遺忘了:
— 他是出生於種族隔離時期舊金山的一個嬰兒,後來在戰後創傷與街頭格鬥盛行的香港中成長。
— 他是回到美國後擁抱西岸反文化運動的少年,把那股自由精神與東方哲學融合。
— 他是那個突破種族藩籬的存在,幫助美國社會重新想像「亞裔」的意義——在「亞裔美國」尚未成形的那個起點上。
書名《Water Mirror Echo》(水鏡回音)來自李小龍本人對於身體、精神與世界互動方式的形容。這本書就像他的一記動作——靈動、直接、深刻。
Jeff Chang 透過大量深度訪談、數千份李小龍家族首度公開的私人資料與照片,完成了一項幾乎不可能的任務:揭開偶像光環背後真正的那個人,並深刻展現李小龍如何在成名過程中,為一種新的身份認同注入生命力——那就是:「亞裔美國」。
這本書是李小龍的傳記,也是亞裔美國誕生的故事。
它不只回顧了一個人如何成為傳奇,
也讓我們看到——傳奇如何開創整個世代。
"Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff Chang is blessed with the vision to see things we do not yet see, thinking and writing with a restless, chasm-crossing, almost prophetic ambition." — Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Stay True: A Memoir
"This book is as celebratory as it is incisive, as it is, at times, heartbreaking. A massive achievement." — Hanif Abdurraqib, National Book Award-winning author of There’s Always This Year and A Little Devil in America
A cultural biography, both sweeping and intimate, of the legend Bruce Lee, set against the extraordinary, untold story of the rise of Asian America—from the author of the award-winning classic Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and one of the finest culture observers of our era.
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, the 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 gorgeous photographs from the family’s archive, Chang achieves 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.
作者介紹
Jeff Chang’s first book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, was named one of the best American nonfiction books of the last quarter century. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and, among numerous other honors, has won the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. Chang has written three other acclaimed bestsellers on American history and culture, music, and the arts. In May 2019, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of his award-winning book We Gon’ Be Alright for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. Chang was featured in Nguyen’s ESPN Bruce Lee documentary, Be Water; the PBS series, Asian Americans; and Lisa Ling’s CNN series, This Is Life.
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