Bruce Lee is one of the first Asian men to achieve Hollywood superstardom as his followers continue to harbour the kung fu star’s legacy on the 50th anniversary of his untimely death
Film scholar Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, who taught Lee's movies at the University of Hong Kong, said Lee expressed a kind of Chinese identity that transcended national borders.
In Hollywood, Lee represented a rebuke to racist stereotypes, showing that Asian men were more than just servants and villains. Despite Lee's enduring fame, preserving his legacy in Hong Kong was no easy task, fan club chairman Wong told AFP. At a government-run museum exhibit commemorating Lee's life, a woman surnamed Yip told AFP she wanted to share"a symbol of the old Hong Kong" with her two children.
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