I vividly remember calling out to my mum one evening in the '70s, "Mum, Mum there’s a Chinese man on the TV!" The whole family excitedly rushed in to see, only to be let down to see Benny Hill.
False alarm. False representation. Then, one day, he arrived on my screen, a symbol of East Asian strength. A symbol of hope as a first-generation, Britain-born Chinese growing up in Salford.
Bruce Lee has been with me in many different forms through my years, and resonated in different ways. My first introduction to his movies was with Enter the Dragon, which was, and still is, one of my favorite films. '70s cool at its best, and one of the few films where we actually hear him talk rather than being dubbed.
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