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History Unplugged Podcast

Bruce Lee Became a Global Celebrity by Embodying 400 Years of Western-Chinese Cultural Trade

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences drawn from around the world. Uncommonly determined, physically gifted, and artistically brilliant, Lee rose to...

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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

1:00.0

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.

1:05.5

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

1:14.5

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

1:29.5

Bruce Lee's most famous dictum was, be formless, shapeless, like water.

1:34.5

He argued that water could take on any form or really whatever the form its container was, could be a teapot, a cup.

1:41.0

But it could also resist, like a river carving a canyon or ocean waves pounding cliffs into sand.

1:47.0

It could literally move mountains. Similar to water, Bruce Lee refused to be captured by the eastern and western cultures that he grew up in, but he flowed between and shaped both.

1:57.0

Lee revolutionized Marvel Arts by combining influences from around the world.

2:01.0

He was uncommonly determined, physically gifted and artistically brilliant, and he rose to fame as part of a, if you really look at this from the big picture,

2:09.0

a multi-century entanglement between China and the United States, combining eastern martial arts with western cinema and celebrity, and the United States is propensity to combine all these different cultures.

2:21.0

Today I'm speaking with Darryl Mehta, author of the new book, Like Water, a cultural history of Bruce Lee.

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