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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
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
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
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
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
October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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?...
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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
October 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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
September 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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
September 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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
September 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM