41 Cumberland Road is the address of Bruce Lee's former home in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, where he spent his last year with his family. [1] The place was affectionately known as "the Crane's Nest". [2]
It is located in Kowloon City District. [3]
Bruce Lee moved into 41 Cumberland Road with his family in June, [4] July [5] or August [6] 1972. He died in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973.
In 1974, mainland Chinese businessman Yu Pang-lin reportedly bought the property from Golden Harvest studio founder Raymond Chow for about HK$1 million. [1] The property was later converted into a love hotel. [1] [7]
On January 6, 2009, it was announced that Lee's Hong Kong home at 41 Cumberland Road would be preserved and transformed into a tourist site by Yu Pang-lin. [8] [9] Yu died in 2015 and this plan did not materialize. [1]
In 2018, Yu's grandson, Pang Chi-ping, said: "We will convert the mansion into a centre for Chinese studies next year, which provides courses like Mandarin and Chinese music for children." [2]
In July 2019, it was announced that the demolition of the building was imminent. Structural problems making the maintenance of the building "unfeasible" were cited, while a mosaic left by Bruce Lee and four window frames were said to be preserved. [10] The house was finally demolished in September that year. [11] A new structure was built in 2021 and today it is a clubhouse. [12]
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Kowloon Tong (Chinese: 九龍塘) is an area of Hong Kong located in Kowloon. The majority of the area is in the Kowloon City District. Its exact location is south of the Lion Rock, north of Boundary Street, east of the East Rail line and west of Grampian Road. It is one of the most expensive residential districts in Hong Kong.
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Events in the year 2018 in Hong Kong.
The 2018 Hong Kong Legislative Council by-election was held on 11 March 2018 for four of the six vacancies in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) - the Hong Kong Island, Kowloon West and New Territories East geographical constituencies and the Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape functional constituency - resulting from the disqualification of six pro-democrat and localist camp Legislative Council members over the 2016 oath-taking controversy. The by-election for the two other seats was not held due to pending legal appeals by the two disqualified legislators.
On 11 November 2020, 15 Hong Kong pro-democracy members of the Legislative Council announced their resignations in protest against the decision of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) which bars Legislative Council members from supporting Hong Kong independence, refusing to recognise Beijing's sovereignty over Hong Kong, seeking help from "foreign countries or foreign forces to interfere in the affairs of the region" or committing "other acts that endanger national security" that resulted in the disqualification of pro-democracy legislators Alvin Yeung, Dennis Kwok, Kwok Ka-ki and Kenneth Leung. In July 2020, the four had been barred from running in the subsequently postponed Legislative Council election originally scheduled for September 2020. The resignation en masse left the Legislative Council membership dwindled to 43 out of the total number of 70 seats, with virtually no opposition for the first time since the 1997 handover.
