Like Water, Daryl J. Maeda
Like Water, Daryl J. Maeda
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Like Water
A Cultural History of Bruce Lee

Author: Daryl J. Maeda

Narrator: David Lee Huynh

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/09/2022


Synopsis

Highlights Bruce Lee's influence beyond martial arts and film

Daryl Joji Maeda's multifaceted account of Bruce Lee's legacy uniquely traces how movements and migrations across the Pacific Ocean structured the cultures Bruce Lee inherited, the milieu he occupied, the martial art he developed, the films he made, and the world he left behind. A unique blend of cultural history and biography, Like Water unearths the cultural strands that Lee intertwined in his rise to a new kind of global stardom. Moving from the gold rush in California and the British occupation of Hong Kong, to the Cold War and the deployment of American troops across Asia, Maeda builds depth and complexity to this larger-than-life figure. His cultural chronology of Bruce Lee reveals Lee to be both a product of his time and a harbinger of a more connected future.

Nearly half a century after his tragic death, Bruce Lee remains an inspiring symbol of innovation and determination, with an enduring legacy as the first Asian American global superstar.

About Daryl J. Maeda

Daryl Joji Maeda is dean and vice provost of undergraduate education and professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America and Rethinking the Asian American Movement.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

Reading some of the other reviews here, it sounded as if the author had an agenda when writing this book There is no agenda. This book talks not only of Bruce Lee, his life, and the lives intertwined with his, but how those lives were in the place they were when first intertwined. It's a history book......more

Goodreads review by Dan

My thanks to both NetGalley and the publisher NYU Press for an advanced copy of this new cultural history and biography. When my mother had to work nights as a nurse on weekends my father and I would stay up late and watch the offerings that late night cable television had to offer. Tons of zombie mo......more

Goodreads review by Pattie

Lots of history - not a lot new about Lee.......more

Rather than a biography of Lee, or a critique of his work, this is a refreshing analysis of the world that produced him--a trans-Pacific cultural milieu spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the deep dives are his ancestors' status as British trade comprador agents, Chinese opera companies in......more