According to US media reports, in October this year, the U.S. Mint (U.S. Mint will pay tribute to her with a 25-cent coin emblazoned with the head of Chinese actress Anna May Wong. She is one of five American women to be posthumously honored with the honor and will also be the first Chinese-American face on U.S. currency.
The American Women's Minting Project is a 25-cent coin series issued from 2022 to 2025, designed five coins each year to honor women who have made significant contributions to the development of the United States.
The obverse of the coins features the head of George Washington, the founding father and first president of the United States, and the reverse of the coin is an outstanding American woman. Women honored are honored for outstanding contributions to the United States in the fields of suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, sciences, space, and the arts, and come from diverse ethnic and geographic backgrounds↓
△Source: China Daily bilingual news
A number of coins have been released, including the image of several celebrities. The Yellow Willow Frost Coin is the last 25-cent coin of the year and will be officially released on October 24.
The mints of Philadelphia and Denver have begun minting these coins this Monday (17th) and are expected to issue more than 300 million coins.
It is reported that Huang Liushuang was born in a poor family that opened a laundry in Los Angeles' Chinatown. She has been interested in movies since she was a child, and even saved money to skip class and sneak into the set to watch. At the age of 9, she began submitting resumes to producers, and at the age of 11, she gave herself the stage name: Anna May Wong.
In the decades that followed, Huang Liushuang became Hollywood's first Asian-American movie star, occupying a place on the Walk of Fame, and his achievements were comparable to Bruce Lee's. She has starred in dozens of films, including Shanghai Express in 1932, Life in 1921 and Passing by the Sea in 1922. Among them, "The Passing of the Sea" is one of the earliest color films.
In addition, she has been the statue figure of the "Hollywood Silver Cast Four Ladies Observatory" with Dorothy Delio, Dorothy Dandridge, Mae West and Marilyn Monroe.
(Content synthesized from the American Chinese Network and China Daily bilingual news)