I am Jackie Chan - Softcover

The mass-market edition of the action-film star's autobiography--a New York Times best-seller--chronicles his rise from poverty in Hong Kong to unparalleled fame, and includes a new chapter and many photographs. Reprint.

e biggest stars to burst into U.S. theaters, Jackie Chan has wowed audiences with death-defying stunts. But who really is this lightning-fast Charlie Chaplin of martial arts moviemaking? Now, in I Am Jackie Chan, he tells the fascinating, harrowing, ultimately triumphant story of his life: How the rebellious son of refugees in tumultuous 1950s Hong Kong became the disciplined disciple of a Chinese Opera Master. How the dying art of Chinese opera led Jackie to the movie business. And how he broke into Hollywood big time by breaking almost every bone in his body.