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Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner) - watermirrorecho.net
Notes from the Edge + Edge of Reason
Can't Stop Won't Stop • Who We Be • We Gon' Be Alright
Our Signal Award-winning podcast on contemporary artists, Edge of Reason, is back for its third season!

New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3

Produced by @atlanticrethink + @hauserwirth

#EdgeofReason
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
#WaterMirrorEcho is on its Northwest swing!

Here’s me & HelenRaptis at AMnorthwest. The full clip: bit.ly/AMNWBruce

PDX Tonight 7pm - Powell’s Books w/ Walidah Imarisha!

SEA Thurs 7pm at Town Hall Seattle w/ Shannon Lee, Doug Palmer + Sue Ann Kay!

See you soon!
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Celebrating Bruce Lee’s 85th bday all month!

Get #WaterMirrorEcho from Bel Canto Books & get a limited-edition art card + bookplate.

Get the incredible *Pancho Villa* by
Bernard James + Bayani Art!

Join us Saturday noon in the LBC Ambitious Ales

Stay tuned for more #Bruce85 announcements soon!
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Portland! #WaterMirrorEcho comes to you on Tuesday November 11th!
Join acclaimed writer/educator/poet Walidah Imarisha + Jeff Chang in conversation at 7pm at @powells.bsky.social on Burnside. It will be a night to remember!
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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🐲📕TOMORROW! Don't miss out on hearing Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social and Ursula Liang @ursulaliang.bsky.social in conversation on Bruce Lee at OACC!

Eastwind Books will have copies of WATER MIRROR ECHO for sale.

#Asian #AsianAmerica #BruceLee #JeffChang #BeLikeWater #OACC
🥋🐉Join us for the launch of WATER MIRROR ECHO with celebrated writer Jeff Chang and filmmaker Ursula Liang! Hear the untold story of icon Bruce Lee.

Wed, Nov 5, 7-8:30 pm
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland
FREE (registration link in comments)

#Asian #AsianAmerican #BruceLee
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Had a great time chatting with WGNNEWS about Water Mirror Echo.

It’s wild and a little surreal that this book has already been out in the world for a whole month.

Watch the full video www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Mu...

#WaterMirrorEcho
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The rise of Bruce Lee and the rise of Asian America mirrored each other. 
 
Now Bruce is an icon for everyone fighting for justice all around the world. 

This is the last in a ten-episode series, *Ten Ways To See Bruce Lee*.

#WaterMirrorEcho is out now!

Watch all the videos: watermirrorecho.net
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Woke up this morning to news that Water Mirror Echo has been named one of the Top 10 Books of 2025 by
Publishers Weekly

It’s been a long journey and I sit here overflowing with gratitude.

Thank you for reading!

#WaterMirrorEcho
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What did Bruce Lee really hope to portray of kung fu in his movies?

Here’s the fourth of four shorts taken from a conversation I did about #WaterMirrorEcho for @thelavinagency.bsky.social

Watch the full-length interview here
youtu.be/9hFMl6WhdqM?...
October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We’re bringing #WaterMirrorEcho home to Oakland Chinatown! 

Join us for a conversation w/Jeff Chang + Ursula Liang

November 5th
7pm 
Oakland Asian Cultural Center 
388 9th Street, Suite 290, Oakland, California 94607
Free

Register now at: watermirrorecho.net or oacc.cc

See you in the Town!
October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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11/13 at 7:30 PM | @zentronix.bsky.social explores Bruce Lee’s enduring impact on Asian American culture with a panel of figures directly impacted by Lee's life, including relatives, former students, and close friends.

Presented with Wing Luke Museum.

🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/aAPN5ZJ
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Bruce Lee’s most famous line is “Be Water.” 

But where did it come from and what did it really mean to him? 

See the 9th in a ten-episode series, *Ten Ways To See Bruce Lee*.

From the new book Water Mirror Echo. Out now. 

All the videos are at watermirrorecho.net

#WaterMirrorEcho
October 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Celebrating Bruce Lee’s 85th w/BelCantoBooks in the LBC!

While supplies last — orders of Water Mirror Echo include signed bookplate + exclusive hand-numbered Bruce Lee art card!

Join us Nov 8th w/Dr. Bernard Remollino & ambitious ales

Buy + RSVP: belcantobooks.net or watermirrorecho.net
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Two celebrated writers of our time together for an unforgettable intergenerational conversation!

Open Access: 𝘈 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦
An Intimate Conversation with LAP Literary Fellows
Jeff Chang (’23) and Garrett Hongo (93’)! 📚✨
Montalvo Arts Center
Wednesday, October 29 - 7pm
watermirrorecho.net
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Why does Lebron James quote Bruce Lee?

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

(Also — no, AI autocorrect - it’s *Emersonian*, not Amazonian!)

Watch the full-length interview below!

youtu.be/9hFMl6WhdqM?...
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Tmw the 45th Hawai’i International Film Festival opens! 

Super stoked to be a small part of it. Join me & Konrad Ng for a #WaterMirrorEcho book talk & party at Kaimuki’s Da Shop, one of my favorite bookstores anywhere.

Save the date: Sun Oct 26, 2pm FREE

More info: watermirrorecho.net + hiff.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Why did one of Bruce Lee’s girlfriends call him a “kinetic genius”? 

It wasn’t because of his kung fu…

See the 8th in a 10-episode series, *Ten Ways To See Bruce Lee*

From the new book Water Mirror Echo. Out now. 

See all the videos at watermirrorecho.net

#WaterMirrorEcho
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Two weeks ago, ISSI's Asian American Research Center hosted a powerful panel with @zentronix.bsky.social, @cathyparkhong.bsky.social, @terisasiagatonu.bsky.social, & Colleen Lye on writing, culture, politics, and solidarity in a rapidly shifting world.
October 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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So last night's event with @zentronix.bsky.social, @wkamaubell.bsky.social, a chat on Jeff's #WaterMirrorEcho and a subsequent screening of _Fist of Fury_ was a delight and a half, of course. (Read the book or listen to the audiobook, either way you'll be glad.) jeffchang.net/water-mirror...
October 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The image of Bruce has become a stereotype - but what was his reality? And who has it impacted the most?

Here’s the second of four shorts taken from a conversation I did about #WaterMirrorEcho for @thelavinagency.bsky.social

Watch the full-length interview here youtu.be/9hFMl6WhdqM?...
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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...  
watermirrorecho.net
October 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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.
October 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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!
October 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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
October 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM