Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America

"Bruce Lee was a marvel in motion and in stillness: the most consequential martial artist of the last century and a pioneer for Asian representation onscreen. This revelatory biography vividly captures his hunger and his hubris, as well as the sparkplug charisma and rigid discipline that made him an icon. But what really elevates Water Mirror Echo is the way Jeff Chang, author of the touchstone Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, places Lee’s story within a concurrent bloom of Asian American identity. Chang tracks that cultural and political dimension so deftly that it feels inseparable from his biographical subject — and more than 50 years after his untimely death, so it is."