New York City!
Join Bakari Kitwana + me next Thursday at NYU for a special discussion of #WaterMirrorEcho, Bruce Lee, hip-hop & Black/Asian solidarities.
Free!
April 9
6-8pm
NYU
20 Cooper Square, 3rd Flr
Register at the link or: bit.ly/NYUBruce
#WaterMirrorEcho is being hailed as a breakthrough in audiobook storytelling!
Read the whole story at Notes From The Edge: zentronix.substack.com
Listen to the Audiobook now at Audible, Spotify, Apple & wherever audiobooks are sold.
watermirrorecho.net
It was a year.
Looking back with gratitude and forward with purpose.
Much more at Substack… open.substack.com/pub/zentronix/
Happy New Year, everyone!
#WaterMirrorEcho
#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!
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!
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!
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
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
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
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?...
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!
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
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?...
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
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
In front of a projected image of Bruce Lee smashing the mirror room in the climax of _Enter The Dragon_, W. Kamau Bell, on the left, and Jeff Chang on the right are seated and discussing Jeff's excellent book _Water Mirror Echo_ and much more besides.
So last night's event with @zentronix.bsky.social, @wkamaubell.bsky.social, a chat on Jeff's #WaterMirrorEcho and a subsequent screening of _Fist of Fury_ was a delight and a half, of course. (Read the book or listen to the audiobook, either way you'll be glad.) jeffchang.net/water-mirror...
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?...
Congratulations Author Jeff Chang! I am thrilled for his new book called Water, Mirror, Echo : Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang ( Wonderful review in the New York Times )
@zentronix.bsky.social @therealshannonlee @brucelee @bruceleefoundation #watermirrorecho #brucelee
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?...
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
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
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
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
Join us for a VIP reception to benefit the Bruce Lee Chinatown statue effort!
Then rock in the streets of Chinatown at the ONE FAMILY BLOCK PARTY with the Bay’s finest DJs, MCs + martial artists!
10/4 1-4pm Waverly Place, SF Chinatown
Info: CHSA.org + watermirrorecho.net
#WaterMirrorEcho
Thank you, Jeff. Congrats on this important book—I can’t wait to read it! #WaterMirrorEcho #BRUCELEE
Stanford IDA presents Jeff Chang and beloved Stanford Professor David Palumbo-Liu, the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of Comparative Literature, in conversation on October 9th!
Register now at: watermirrorecho.net
#WaterMirrorEcho
Litquake & Bay Area Book Festival present Jeff Chang and W. Kamau Bell on Oct 10th at the legendary @4StarTheater followed by a screening of “Fist of Fury”!
Doors at 6:30pm for book signing/sales. $18 adv / $20 door
Very limited seating. Get your tickets now: watermirrorecho.net
#WaterMirrorEcho
Join us for #WaterMirrorEcho pub week in NYC next week!
Sept 24 — Two Dragons in Hollywood, Anna May Wong and Bruce Lee, with Katie Gee Salisbury
Sept 26 — Yu and Me Books Presents me, Hua Hsu, and DJ YiuYiu and the Chinatown Records crew
Register now for these free events: watermirrorecho.net
Bruce Lee had an Asian American accent. Not everyone liked it.
I talk to James Chen, the voice of the Water Mirror Echo audiobook, about how some people’s reactions led to a turning point in Bruce’s career.
Watch it here! #WaterMirrorEcho is out next Tues, September 23!
watermirrorecho.net
Announcing our hometown launch event in Berkeley!
It’s our ritual to set off the fireworks for every new book w/2 of my Day Ones here: Pegasus Books + Adam Mansbach.
Come celebrate with us at Pegasus Downtown on 10/7 at 7pm.
The latest on all the events: watermirrorecho.net
#WaterMirrorEcho
