Under the sky, under the heavens, there is but one family.
Be a practical dreamer backed by action.
To change with change is the changeless state.

Walk On! – A Brief History of Bruce Jun Fan Lee

submited by

Style Pass

2021-07-13 02:00:05

Under the sky, under the heavens, there is but one family. Be a practical dreamer backed by action. To change with change is the changeless state. Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless. Add what is essentially your own. Walk on!

“Like so many Asian American kids, I looked up to Bruce Lee,” playwright Qui Nguyen says, in an interview with Xin Chao magazine. “He transcended race. He is an icon like Mickey Mouse and Spiderman. When I sit down to write anything, I try to create something as big as Bruce Lee. Something that was really important to me in Vietgone is that the Asian American male lead is a strong, sexually driven, and powerful character because I never saw that [except Bruce Lee].”

Bruce Jun Fan Lee was destined to be a dragon — born in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Fransisco between 6 and 8 am, the hour of the dragon, in November 1940, the year of the dragon. Lee’s father Lee Hoi Chuen and mother Grace Ho gave him the name Jun Fan at birth, and he was given the American name “Bruce” by the nurse at Jackson Street Hospital.