WATER MIRROR ECHO by Jeff Chang - SF Chronicle 'New book ‘Water Mirror Echo’ explores how Bruce Lee’s legacy still shapes Asian America'

SF Chronicle | September 23, 2025

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 the “firing squad.”

Borrowing a tactic from San Jose-raised author Viet Thanh Nguyen, Chang assembled a group of trusted peers — Bruce Lee “Be Water” documentary filmmaker Bao Nguyen, authors Adam Mansbach (“Go the F— to Sleep”) and Cathy Park Hong (“Minor Feelings”), and East Bay comedian and self-proclaimed “No. 1 Bruce Lee Expert (Non-Asian Division)” W. Kamau Bell.

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