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Article: Bruce Lee's daughter applauds Chinese TV series
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- October 24, 2008
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Bruce Lee's daughter said Friday she's happy that China has embraced her father with a 50-part prime-time TV series on his life _ even though the late action star was no fan of communism.
The series currently airing on state broadcaster China Central Television, which portrays the late action star as a nationalist hero, is China's first movie or TV drama on the late actor. When Lee made his name playing characters who defended the Chinese against oppressors in the early 1970s, China was still a closed country.
"Obviously, my father doesn't have a lot of love for communist ideology and believed in a different outlook on life," Shannon Lee told The Associated Press ...