Striking distance : Bruce Lee & the dawn of martial arts in America /
In the spring of 1959, eighteen-year-old Bruce Lee returned to San Francisco, the city of his birth, and quickly inserted himself into the West Coasts fledgling martial arts culture. Even though Asian fighting styles were widely unknown to mainstream America, Bruce encountered a robust fight culture...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press
[2016]
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1d41dnj |
Taula de continguts:
- Part 1. San Francisco. The patriarch
- Native son
- The good long fist
- The little dragon
- The soft arts
- Three moves or less.
- Part 2. Oakland. The innovator
- The Hawaiian Connection (Part one)
- The Hawaiian Connection (Part two)
- Way of the integrated fist.
- Part 3. 1964. Year of the green dragon
- Long Beach
- Incident at the Sun Sing Theater
- Exchanging hands
- Aftermath
- Epilogue: Screen test.