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The Hong Kong Bruce Lee Club raised US$100,000 for a statue to be erected after pleas to the government to honour his legacy. [2] A 2.5 m (8.2 ft) bronze statue by artist Cao Chong-en was erected along the Avenue of Stars attraction near the waterfront at Tsim Sha Tsui. [3]
Bruce Lee [b] (born Lee Jun-fan; [c] November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and philosopher.He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy which was formed from Lee's experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought.
English: A 3.5-meter high statue of Bruce Lee in action, standing on one leg and kicking with the other, showing in the main hall of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum during the Bruce Lee -Kung Fu‧Art‧Life Exhibition.
By Jessie Pang. HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fifty years after the death of Bruce Lee, who galvanised the imaginations of generations of young people worldwide with feats of kung fu immortalised on ...
Chu Tat-shing (Chinese: 朱達誠; born 1942) is a Chinese sculptor and visual artist. [1] He is known for his sculpture of Bruce Lee at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. [2] He has also made sculptures of Sun Yat-sen on display in Hong Kong and Hawaii.
Ip Man's gravestone on Wu Tip Shan, Fanling, Hong Kong. Ip died on 2 December 1972, in his unit at 149 Tung Choi Street in Hong Kong, [1] from laryngeal cancer, only seven months before the death of Bruce Lee, his most famous student. [34] He was buried at Wo Hop Shek, Hong Kong.
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Bruce Lee moved into 41 Cumberland Road with his family in June, [4] July [5] or August [6] 1972. He died in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973.. In 1974, mainland Chinese businessman Yu Pang-lin reportedly bought the property from Golden Harvest studio founder Raymond Chow for about HK$1 million. [1]