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Bruce Lee


Introduction

Bruce Lee was born in the Chinese year of the dragon, in the hour of the
dragon on November 27, 1940. From the beginning, it was obvious he was a
remarkable and unique child with tremendous energy. His mother named him Lee
Jun Fan, which meant "return again." She felt he would return to the United
States where he was born while his parents were on tour with the Cantonese opera.
A nurse suggested he be called Bruce as an American name for him.

Childhood

Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco at the Jackson Street Hospital in
Chinatown. When he and his family returned to Hong Kong in 1941, he was called
Sai Fon, which meant "small phoenix", a feminine name. Bruce had an ...

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the death of Mr. Lee's brother, he, as in Chinese custom, had to taken in
his whole brother's Family and had to be the provider. This meant nearly 20
people lived in the flat.
It was through his father's connection that Bruce ultimately became a
child film star. His own acting ability was clear from the beginning. Bruce
posed as a great natural actor and possessed a great natural ability for acting.
His father used to take him backstage. As a young boy, Bruce always hung around
the set where his father was working on film.
Few people have started a major film career as early as Bruce did. He
was barely three months old when he was given the part in a Chinese movie made
in San Francisco. Another movie called "The Beginning of a Boy" he made in Hong
Kong when he was six.
Bruce's favorite saying from when he was just starting Kung Fu up to
when he died was, "As long as I can remember, I feel I have had this great
creative and spiritual force within me that is ...

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Bruce Lee was eighteen years old, his family feared that he would
join a gang, so they decided that he should return to San Francisco. This hurt
and broke Bruce's heart to be away from his family. He always made the best out
of impossible situations. The trip took eighteen days on a steamship.
Bruce was also an expert dancer, and had won a crown for the cha-cha in
1958. So to pass the time away, he spent most of his it in first class
performing and demonstrating the cha-cha. He even showed a few passengers a few
dance moves.
Upon arriving to the United States, he wanted to be the first to teach
any martial arts, particularly Kung Fu, to the people in his new country. ...

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