"Bruce Lee: Legends of the Dragon Vol. 2"

Tao Publishing Ltd are please to announced: Volume 2 of the continuing series Legends of the Dragon by Steve Kerridge will be launching at the Bruce Lee's 35th Memorial event in Seattle on the 18-20th July 2008 ! There will be a book signing opportunity with Linda Lee Cadwell, Shannon Lee and Steve Kerridge ! Advance copies will be flown just for the event and general UK release will be late August

"Bruce Lee: Legends of the Dragon Vol. 2" is a much bigger book than volume one: A total of 340 pages ! Dim: 210x210mm !

Available in paperback and limited hardback.

"Bruce Lee: Legends of the Dragon Vol. 2" Paperback - ISBN: 978-0-9557920-2-1 - £25.00
"Bruce Lee: Legends of the Dragon Vol. 2" Limited Hardback - ISBN: 978-0-9557920-3-8 - £35.00

As you can see, the price of book 2 has increased by 15%, this is reflected by the increase of 25% in number of pages!

You can secure your copy now, and be the first to recieve the books upon its arrival.

The paperback version of "Bruce Lee: Legends of the Dragon Vol. 2" will be available in all good book stores.

For further information of the Bruce Lee Seattle event: www.bruceleefoundation.com
For further information of the book series: www.taopublishing.co.uk
To secure your copy of "Bruce Lee: Legends of the Dragon Vol. 2" Limited Hardback: www.taosport.co.uk

35 years on....

Remembering Bruce Lee in Hong Kong

Sunday marked the 35th anniversary of the death of martial-arts film legend Bruce Lee at the young age of 32. But it was hard to find any trace of a tribute at his old residence in Hong Kong, which has been converted to a rooms-by-the-hour love motel. For Lee’s devoted fans (site mostly in Chinese), there has been little hope of converting the Kowloon Tong site into a shrine befitting the kung fu icon—one the most recognizable Chinese people of the 20th century. Until now.

Bruce Lee’s former home at 41 Cumberland Road in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, is now a love motel, but may someday become a museum honoring the martial arts icon.

Lee’s two-story home was to be sold this month for as much as $13 million to benefit victims of the Sichuan earthquake, but owner/philanthropist Yu Pang-lin, responding to appeals from Lee’s fans, decided instead to donate the property to the city so it can be turned into a museum. Under Hong Kong law, the government would need to approve Yu’s proposal. It won’t be easy; Yu wants to expand the roughly 5,000-square-foot site to add a 25,000-square-foot building, complete with library, cinema and martial arts center. So far, town planning and antiquities boards have told local media that the ambitious plan may not meet standards required for such a project.

Still, fans are hoping that the city where the San Francisco-born action star made his biggest mark will offer something more informative than the eight-foot-two-inch bronze statue on the harbor that was unveiled in 2005. While a memorial service was held on Sunday in Seattle, where Lee is buried, memorials are popping up around the world, with many wondering when Hong Kong will unveil its own museum.

Lee’s ancestral village in Guangdong province, Shunde, converted his family’s old home into a museum and named a street after him in 2002, despite a slim connection to Lee himself. But Shunde certainly has more of connection than another notable tribute, a statue in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. That statue, which isn’t meant to honor Lee himself as much as “the very idea of justice” he represented, was dedicated Nov. 26, 2005—the day before Lee’s birthday and a day before Hong Kong’s statue dedication.

In the meantime, Bruce Lee fans in Hong Kong can check out the exhibition of photos and memorabilia organized by the Hong Kong-based Bruce Lee Club through July 28 at Innocentre, 72 Tat Chee Avenue, a few blocks away from Lee’s old home in Kowloon Tong.”