Followers from around the world urge memorial to martial arts legend
Fans from around the world have called for Bruce Lee's home to be preserved as a museum.
On internet forums and in e-mails, they make often emotional pleas for the setting up of a memorial to the martial arts and movie legend. The issue will also be raised at events in Seattle to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Lee's death this month.
Letters have come from places as far away as Britain, Spain, Sweden and the Channel Island of Guernsey.
Swedish fan Stefan Nikander, who has been practising jeet kune do - the martial arts style developed by Lee - for 15 years, wrote that Lee's spirit had helped him through a four-year battle against a brain tumour. 'I'm now living every day on borrowed time and it would be a shame if one of my dreams would be destroyed - and that dream is to visit the Bruce Lee house in Hong Kong one day,' he wrote.
Marcos Ocana from Spain wrote: 'We fans around the world feel that the Hong Kong government is forgetting that it was Bruce Lee who put Hong Kong on the map ... Bruce Lee was a man proud of Hong Kong. Why doesn't Hong Kong seem to be proud of Bruce Lee?'
Steve Kerridge, a UK-based devotee and author of books on Lee, said he would raise the issue with fans, friends and family of Lee who will be attending the anniversary events in Seattle on July 19 and 20. The events include a celebratory dinner with Lee's widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, and daughter, Shannon Lee, and a memorial at Lake View Cemetery where Lee is buried.
