Never Grow Up (Revised Edition)

By Jackie Chan and Zhu Mo

A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world.

 

Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it’s from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind mind-bending stunts. In 2016—after fifty-six years in the industry, over 200 films, and many broken bones—he received an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement in film, but at 64 years years-old, Jackie is just getting started.

 

Now, in Never Grow Up, the global superstar reflects on his early life, including his childhood years at the China Drama Academy (in which he was enrolled at the age of six), his big breaks and setbacks in Hong Kong and Hollywood, his numerous brushes with death (both on and off film sets), and his life as a husband and father, which he admits has been, regrettably, imperfect.

 

Jackie has never shied away from his mistakes. Since The Young Master in 1980, Jackie’s films have ended with a bloopers reel in which he stumbles over his lines, misses his mark, or crashes to the ground in a stunt gone south. In Never Grow Up, Jackie applies the same spirit of openness to his life, proving time and time again why he’s beloved the world over: he’s honest, funny, kind, brave beyond reckoning and and—after all this time time—still young at heart.

 

“The legendary action star gets candid telling his life story – in particular, recounting his many brushes with death both on and off screen. You’ll be hard hard-pressed to find a Hollywood memoir with this much blood and (broken) bone. Chan’s stories are too fascinating to ignore.”  Entertainment Weekly

 

“Undeniably fun… winningly upbeat… it provides a heck of a lot of entertainment.” —Publishers Weekly

 

“The book is definitively warts (and cracked skulls and broken bones and gallons of blood) and all… but Chan also reveals a soulful, thoughtful side side—just one you wouldn’t want to mess with.” —Kirkus Reviews

 

Jackie Chan is a martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and philanthropist. He has appeared in over 150 films, including Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, Kung Fu Panda, and most recently The Foreigner.

 

Zhu Mo has been working in the film industry for nearly 10 years. She holds Master’s Degree in Film Studies of both Beijing Normal University and University College London.

 

Beijing Fonghong Books Co., Ltd | 368 pp / 220,000 words (Chinese) | First Published April 2015, Revised Edition February 2017 | 100+ colour Illustrations

 

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