on November 27, 1940, at the Chinese Hospital, in San Francisco's Chinatown.

According to
the Chinese zodiac, Lee was born in both the hour and the year of the Dragon, which
according to tradition is a strong and fortuitous omen.[16] Lee and his parents returned to Hong
Kong when he was three months old.[17]
Bruce's father, Lee Hoi-chuen, (李海泉) was Han Chinese, and his mother, Grace Ho (何愛瑜),
was of Eurasian ancestry.[18] Grace Ho was the adopted daughter of Ho Kom-tong (Ho
Gumtong, 何甘棠) and the half-niece of Sir Robert Ho-tung, both notable Hong
Kong businessmenand philanthropists.[19] Bruce was the fourth child of five children: Phoebe
Lee (李秋源), Agnes Lee (李秋鳳), Peter Lee (李忠琛), and Robert Lee (李振輝).
Grace's parentage remains unclear. Linda Lee in her 1989 biography The Bruce Lee
Story suggests that Grace had a German father and was a Catholic.[20] Bruce Thomas in his
influential 1994 biography Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit suggests that Grace had a Chinese
mother and a German father.[21] Lee's relative Eric Peter Ho in his 2010 book Tracing My
Children’s Lineage suggests that Grace was born in Shanghaito a Eurasian woman named
Cheung King-sin.[21]

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