Water Mirror Echo: Book Talk with Jeff Chang

Sat Oct 04 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm UTC-07:00

Chinese Historical Society of America Museum | San Francisco

Chinese Historical Society of America
Publisher/HostChinese Historical Society of America
Water Mirror Echo: Book Talk with Jeff Chang
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Join award-winning author Jeff Chang for a very special presentation of his latest book and Bruce Lee's role in shaping Asian America.
About this Event

Water Mirror Echo—a title inspired by Bruce Lee’s own way of moving, being and responding to the world—is a page-turning and powerful book written by award-winning author Jeff Chang, whose writing on culture, politics, the arts and music have made him one of the most acclaimed and distinctive voices of our time.

Now, based on in-depth interviews with Lee’s closest intimates, thousands of newly available personal documents, and featuring dozens of gorgeous photographs from the family’s archive, Chang achieves the nearly impossible. He reveals the man behind the enduring iconography and stirringly shows Lee’s growing fame ushering in something that’s turned out to be even more enduring: the creation of Asian America.

More than a half-century after his passing, Bruce Lee is as towering a figure to people around the world as ever. On his path to becoming a global icon, he popularized martial arts in the West, became a bridge to people and cultures from the East, and just as he was set to conquer Hollywood once and for all, he died of cerebral edema at age thirty-two. It’s no wonder that Bruce Lee’s legend has only bloomed in the decades since. Yet, in so many ways, the legend has eclipsed the man.

Join CHSA for an intimate conversation with Jeff Chang as part of a very special fundraising event where Jeff will discuss his book and the influence and legacy of Bruce Lee on the shaping of today's Asian America.

Refreshments and beverages will be provided. A special book signing will follow this presentation.

ADMISSION

$40 includes food and a meet-and-greet with Jeff Chang.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeff Chang is a writer and cultural organizer who has worked in and written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His first book, , garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award, and was as one of the most important books of the past quarter century. As a journalist, his byline has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Slate, The Nation, N+1, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, Foreign Policy, Mother Jones, Salon, and Buzzfeed.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, 965 Clay Street, San Francisco, United States

Tickets

USD 40.00

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