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Your evening longread: What it means to understand Bruce Lee
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What it means to understand Bruce Lee
Danny Chau writes about the life of Bruce Lee, and how his influence is still felt 47 years on from his death.
(The Atlantic, approx 10 mins reading time)
Lee is the most influential martial artist in modern history, just one facet of the legend he became after his untimely death in 1973 at age 32. Nearly five decades later, the world is still reckoning with the momentum he generated in his brief life, and with the ways culture has reinvented him. In a sense, Lee’s widespread impact—in realms as disparate as political protest and video games—is simply a reflection of his life’s vision
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