Jeff Chang - "WATER MIRROR ECHO: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America", with Adam Mansbach
Schedule
Wed, 08 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
2349 Shattuck Ave , Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704 | Berkeley, CA
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Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown at 7pm on Wednesday, October 8th for a launch celebration for "WATER MIRROR ECHO: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America" by Bay Area writer, host, and cultural organizer Jeff Chang! He'll be joined in conversation by bestselling novelist and screenwriter Adam Mansbach. See you there!About the author:
JEFF CHANG is a writer, host, and a cultural organizer. His book, "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation", was named one of the best U.S. nonfiction books of the last quarter century. He has also written the award-winning books, "Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America", and "We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation". His bylines have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Slate, Mother Jones, The Nation, n+1, and The Believer. He is the host of the Signal award-winning podcast on artists and ideas, Edge of Reason, and of Notes From the Edge, produced by KALW Public Media.
Praise for "WATER MIRROR ECHO":
“I didn’t realize what I didn’t know about Bruce Lee until I read Jeff Chang’s Water Mirror Echo. His portrait of Bruce Lee is epic and deeply personal, recasting this icon as a flawed yet empowering figure who seismically changed Asian America. Water Mirror Echo is a revelation and a stunning accomplishment.”
— Cathy Park Hong, Pulitzer-Prize finalist and author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“Water Mirror Echo thrives not just as an ode, or a tome of cultural appreciation, but also as a rich analysis of the history within, and the landscape upon which a cultural icon can be formed, can be shaped, can be beloved. This book is as celebratory as it is incisive, as it is, at times, heartbreaking. A massive achievement.”
— Hanif Abdurraqib, National Book Award-winning author of There’s Always This Year and A Little Devil in America
“Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff Chang is blessed with the vision to see things we do not yet see, thinking and writing with a restless, chasm-crossing, almost prophetic ambition.”
— Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Stay True: A Memoir
Read more about the event & participants at: https://pegasusbookstore.com/chang
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