In spring 2024, Berkeley author and activist Jeff Chang had just completed the first draft of his Bruce Lee biography, "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America," when he called in ...

The dragon first appears as a flicker. Bruce Lee is not yet the untouchable icon of posters and slow-motion flying kicks. He’s a teenager with a temper, wrestling with a little hot dragon inside ...

The author Jeff Chang wrote “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” widely considered one of the seminal books on the roots of hip-hop, in 2005. As a follow-up, he signed a contract to write a biography of the late ...

The first step was easy. A book editor, impressed by Jeff Chang‘s acclaimed 2005 cultural history of hip-hop, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” asked if he’d consider writing a book on Bruce Lee, the martial ...