From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan: the most popular books of 2018
- The martial arts stars topped the popularity charts with a biography and a warts-and-all memoir
- Also featured are a sensual Chinese photo book and the Crazy Rich Asians sequel
Fans of classic Hong Kong kung fu films were spoiled this year with the release of books detailing the lives of the city’s top martial arts stars.
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly, released in June, was a long-overdue account of the rise of Hong Kong’s most famous son, and made headlines by offering a bizarre new theory of how the star died in 1973.
But Polly’s book was overshadowed earlier this month by the release of the sensational Jackie Chan memoir Never Grow Up, in which the actor makes a number of shocking revelations such as visits to prostitutes, drinking binges and domestic violence.
But it wasn’t just books about kung fu stars that grabbed our readers – here are five of the South China Morning Post’s most popular books articles from 2018.
Bruce Lee biography