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Hollywood legend Huang Willow will become the first Asian-American to appear on U.S. currency.
According to the New York Times and other media reports, the U.S. Mint (U.S. Mint) will launch a new 25-cent coin on Oct. 24 featuring a portrait of Hollywood Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong. Huang Liushuang is the first Chinese-American Hollywood actress and the first Asian-American actress to gain international fame. In her early years, she fought racism in Hollywood and became a Chinese pioneer in breaking Western stereotypes of China.
A 25-cent coin with a yellow willow frost head printed on it (Image: US Mint)
The first Asian woman to appear on U.S. currency
Born in Los Angeles in 1905, Huang Liushuang has a long and rich career, spanning silent films, sound films, TV dramas, stage plays and radio dramas, and she has cooperated with many famous Hollywood actors to shoot more than 60 film masterpieces such as "Moon Palace Treasure Box", "Chinatown Bustling Dream" and "Shanghai Express". Huang Liushuang is recognized as the first Asian-American movie star in Hollywood, she occupies a place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is the first Chinese actress to stay a star in Hollywood.
In the early twentieth century, when Hollywood was still deeply rooted in racism and the Chinese Exclusion Act was still law, Huang called for greater Asian representation in Hollywood and challenged stereotypes of Asians, according to The Guardian.
In a 1933 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Huang Liushuang said: "Why is the Chinese on the screen almost always the villain in the film, and such a cruel villain - murderous, treacherous, like a snake in the grass." "We're not that kind of people."
Huang Liushuang (Image source: The Guardian)
Huang Liushuang debuted on the screen at the age of 14, and starred for the first time in "The Toll of the Sea" three years later. According to NPR, she is often assigned to racist and underpaid roles. For example, in "Shanghai Express," Huang Liushuang earned only $6,000, while the white actress Marlene Dietrich, who worked with her, earned $78,166.
According to the New York Times, despite being considered one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, Huang Liushuang was never chosen as the heroine of a romantic love movie because the law at the time prohibited people of different races from kissing on screen.
In order to escape the racist restrictions of Hollywood, Huang Liushuang traveled to Europe in 1928 to find more opportunities to appear in English, German and French-speaking films.
In 1960, Huang Liushuang gained a place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The following year, she tragically died.
U.S. Mint official Wentrice Gibson called Wentrice Gibson in a statement about the coin "a courageous advocate for the representation and more dimensional role of Asian-American actors."
In honor of and honor American women pioneers, the U.S. Mint released the 2022 "American Women 25 Cent Coin Project," which features the heads of five female pioneers on the 25 cent coin. In addition to Huang Liushuang, coins have been released: writer Maya Angelou, astronaut Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, and women's suffragette Nina Otero-Warren.
Women appear on the currencies of countries around the world
It is not uncommon to use the form of currency to commemorate the female pioneers of various countries, and the female figures who have appeared in the currencies of each country are also unique.
In 2017, the Bank of England issued a £10 plastic note with a portrait of the famous British novelist Jane Austen in circulation to commemorate the great female writer in monetary currency in the year of Jane Austen's 200th anniversary.
£10 note with Jane Austen's portrait (Image: The Guardian)
On this banknote is also printed a sentence from "Pride and Prejudice": "I say, no entertainment is worth the pleasure of reading!" ”（“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!” ）
Jane Austen was born in the 18th century, author of "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Emma" and other works, her works are considered to be "the most profound record of Georgian rural life in England, the novel is full of wisdom and romance, but also needles and needles", and has been remade into film and television dramas countless times.
In 2014, Japan launched a new set of banknotes, in which the 5,000-yen denomination denomination featured a portrait of writer Kazuha Higuchi, the first time a female figure appeared on the front of a Japanese currency.
5,000 yen banknote with portrait of Kazuha Higuchi (data map)
Higuchi Kazuha (born May 2, 1872) was an outstanding Japanese female writer of the 19th century and one of the early pioneers of modern Japanese critical realist literature. She left many works for the Japanese literary circle that deeply reflected the miserable life of the lower classes of society in the Meiji period, and was called the "Meiji Purple Style Department" by the Japanese literary circle.
In addition, the Australian $100 note features world-renowned soprano Nelly Melba on the obverse, shipping tycoon and philanthropist Mary Le Bei on the obverse of the $20 note, and writer and poet Lady Mary Gilmer on the back of the $10 note.
The Chilean 5,000-peso banknote bears a portrait of Gabriela Mistral, Latin America's first Nobel Prize winner in literature.
5,000 pesos with portrait of Gabriela Mistral (infographic)
Colombia issued a new 10,000-peso banknote in 2015 with a portrait of anthropologist Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda to commemorate her pioneering research on family structure and medical anthropology in her country.
(Source: Jimu News)
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