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Archives till 17 January, 2007

Contents 1 Given name 2 Website 3 La Salle College entry 4 Failed GA

[edit] Given name

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Bruce Lee's Cantonese given name, Jun Fan (振藩; Mandarin Pinyin: Zhènfán), literally means "invigorate

I thought Jun Fan meant "Return Again". I heard that on a documentary on bruce lee?? -H4eafy 01/02/07

Look the characters up on our nifty sister-project wiktionary feature: 振藩. The first character means invigorate or excite, the second means fence or boundary. Idiomatically, the combination could possibly mean return again but someone with more Cantonese than I have would have to tell us. --Fire Star 火星 16:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I found this on the bruce lee foundation website: http://www.bruceleefoundation.com/BruceLeeBio.pdf It says: "Bruce’s parents gave him the name “Jun Fan.” Since it is Chinese custom to put the surname first, Bruce’s full name is written Lee Jun Fan. The true meaning of Jun Fan deserves an explanation as it, too, would foretell the journey of the newly born Lee son. Literally, JUN means “to arouse to the active state” or “to make prosperous.” It was a common middle name used by Hong Kong Chinese boys in those days, understandably because China and the Chinese people were very vulnerable at that time, and everyone, including Bruce’s parents, wanted the “sleeping lion of the East” to wake up. The FAN syllable refers to the Chinese name for San Francisco, but its true meaning is “fence of a garden” or “bordering subordinate countries of a big country.” During the period of the Ching Dynasty (1644-1911), many Chinese immigrated to Hawaii and San Francisco as laborers, and the implication became that the United States was FAN of the Great Ching Empire. Thus the true meaning of Bruce’s name--JUN FAN--was “to arouse and make FAN (the United States) prosperous.” The gut feeling of many Chinese at that time, who felt suppressed by and inferior to foreign powers, was that they wished to outshine the more superior countries and regain the Golden Age of China. Bruce’s parents wanted Bruce to have his name shine and shake the foreign countries, which he certainly succeeded in doing."

[edit] Website

I find it interesting that according to Wikipedia, Bruce Lee has an "official website". Who decided that ? Bruce died in 1974, decades before web sites were used. So why is it he has an "official website". Could it be that this is advertising, masquerading as an entry ?

The "official website" is the website of the Bruce Lee Foundation (something that probably deserves its own article but redirects to Bruce Lee right now). The Bruce Lee Foundation was founded by his wife and daughter. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 19:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] La Salle College entry

I've been rewriting and cleaning up some of the "Early Life" sections of Mr. Lee's article, and came across a contradiction -- at one point it is stated that he entered the La Salle College in Hong Kong at the age of 12, whereas it later states he entered it at the age of 14 instead. Could anyone who has access to or knowledge of valid source material clear this matter up? Thank you. DieOfGoodLuck 12:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Failed GA

This article is too long, repetitive, filled with trivia, and needs copyediting.

The lead section says the same things three or four times. There is a typo where some bold text isn't closed properly and the rest of the paragraph is bolded. There is a lot of detailed material that needs to be moved to another article and summarized here, for example the filmography and the extensive list of quotes. --Ideogram 23:29, 10 March 2007 (UTC)