Editing Bruce Lee (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Bruce Lee with his parents 1940s.jpg|thumb|Bruce Lee as a baby with his parents, [[Grace Ho]] and [[Lee Hoi-chuen]]]]

Bruce Lee's birth name was Lee Jun-fan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Do you know Bruce Lee? |url=https://nie.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/WingLukeBruceLee_11-25-14_Article2.pdf |website=Seattle Times}}</ref>

His father, [[Lee Hoi-chuen]], was a [[Cantonese opera]] singer based in Hong Kong. His mother [[Grace Ho]] was born in Shanghai.{{sfn|Polly|2018|p=14}} In December 1939, his parents traveled to California for an [[concert tour|international opera tour]] in [[Chinatown, San Francisco]].{{sfn|Polly|2018|pp=18–19}} Bruce  was born there on November 27, 1940.{{sfn|Polly|2018|p=21}} His birth in the U.S. allowed him to claim U.S. citizenship due to the United States' ''[[jus soli]]'' citizenship laws.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maeda |first1=Daryl Joji |title=Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee |date=August 9, 2016 |publisher=NYU Press}}</ref> When he was four months old (April 1941), the Lee family returned to Hong Kong.{{sfn|Polly|2018|p=23}} Soon after, the Lee family experienced unexpected hardships as Japan, amid [[Japan during World War II|World War II]], launched a surprise [[Battle of Hong Kong|attack on Hong Kong]] in December 1941 and [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong|ruled the city for the next four years]].<ref name="2018 Ng">{{cite book |title=龍影中華──李小龍的光影片段 |last=吳貴龍 |publisher=中華書局(香港) |date=2018 |page=8}}</ref>

The ethnicity of Bruce Lee's mother, Grace Ho, is contested. The consensus is that Grace Ho's father was a [[German people|German]] immigrant, and that her mother was [[Chinese people|Chinese]], as attested by biographers [[Robert Clouse]] and Bruce Thomas. Bruce Lee's wife, [[Linda Lee Cadwell]], wrote that Bruce Lee's grandfather was a German [[Catholic]].{{sfn|Polly|2019|p=13, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5bGWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA507 507] "For decades, Bruce Lee biographers have asserted that Bruce's mother, Grace Ho, was half German. Robert Clouse wrote, "Grace had come to Hong Kong with her Chinese mother and German father at 19." (Bruce Lee: The Biography, p.9). Bruce Thomas concurred, "Grace was the daughter of a Chinese mother and a German father." (Bruce Lee, Fighting Spirit, p.3). Linda Lee wrote, "Grace Lee was half German and a Catholic" (The Bruce Lee Story, p.20)."}}<ref name="Vice" /> 

A new alternative theory argues that Grace Ho's father was actually the son of a [[Dutch Jew]], Charles Maurice Bosman, and his Chinese [[concubine]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Palmer |first1=Doug |title=Bruce Lee: Sifu, Friend and Big Brother |date=21 September 2020 |publisher=Chin Music Press |isbn=978-1-63405-982-4 |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ND_-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT31}}</ref> Charles Russo has questioned this origin story entirely, suggesting that Grace Ho's father might have been Chinese or mixed-Chinese, and that her mother might have been English.<ref name="Vice">{{Cite web |last=Russo |first=Charles |title=Was Bruce Lee of English descent? Just ask his mother |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/was-bruce-lee-of-english-descent/ |access-date=18 May 2016 |website=Vice|date=May 18, 2016 }}</ref> [[Matthew Polly]] concedes that Grace Ho's paternal grandfather was a [[Dutch Jew]], but likewise asserts that her mother was English.{{sfn|Polly|2019|p=507}} 

However, according to Doug Palmer, the claim that Grace Ho had an English mother is only speculation.<ref name="Palmer13" /> Palmer also notes that family records suggest that the Dutch-Jewish Bosman family had originated from Germany, which may account for the assumption that Grace Ho was part German.<ref name="Palmer13">{{cite book |last1=Palmer |first1=Doug |title=Bruce Lee: Sifu, Friend and Big Brother |date=21 September 2020 |publisher=Chin Music Press |isbn=978-1-63405-982-4 |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ND_-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT31}} "Matthew Polly asserts that her father was indeed half Chinese and half Dutch-Jewish, and that her mother was 100% English. See pp. 13-14 and chapter notes thereto. But from the notes, it is clear that he is speculating. His notes also mention that the Dutch-Jewish Bosman family could be traced to Germany several generations before, which could explain the origin of the claim that Grace was part German."</ref>