EIJING - Bruce Lee is getting a belated hero's welcome in China, with
the country's state broadcaster set to air a 50-part prime-time series
on the late kung fu star.
Lee became a chest-thumping source of nationalistic pride to Chinese around the world with his characters who defended the Chinese against oppressors in a series of movies in the early 1970s. But his influence wasn't felt immediately in China, which was then a closed communist country.
Lee's films started surfacing in China on video in the 1980s — years after his death in 1973 from swelling of the brain.
Lee became a chest-thumping source of nationalistic pride to Chinese around the world with his characters who defended the Chinese against oppressors in a series of movies in the early 1970s. But his influence wasn't felt immediately in China, which was then a closed communist country.
Lee's films started surfacing in China on video in the 1980s — years after his death in 1973 from swelling of the brain.
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