According to China Daily, on October 25 this year, the US Mint will issue 25 cents coins with the avatar of Chinese actress Anna May Wong.
Huang Liushuang will be one of the five women posthumously awarded the honor and will also become the first Chinese woman to be engraved with American coins.
Huang Liushuang, real name Huang Amei, is from Guangdong, but she was born in Los Angeles, the United States and is a Chinese-American actress. Her grandfather was the earliest Chinese worker to come to California to make gold, and her father Huang Shanxing later opened a laundry shop in Chinatown to make a living.
When Huang Liushuang was 14 years old, she recommended herself to become a supporting role in the film who played an Eurasian mixed-race child when she went out in Chinatown when she went out to play the role of a European and Asian mixed-race child in the film, thus embarking on the road of acting.
Huang Liushuang's film career lasted for more than 40 years, and she has made more than 50 movies in total, including "Shanghai Express" in 1932, "Life" in 1921 and "Death of the Sea" in 1922. His acting career spans silent films, audio films, TV series, stage plays and radio dramas.
Huang Liushuang is the first Chinese movie star in Hollywood in the United States. At that time, Chinese people had a low status in the United States. Huang Liushuang was able to star in so many works in this environment, which shows how strong his ability and the high status of celebrities in the circle. It is said that Huang Liushuang's traces and dynamics also appeared in film magazines in North America, Europe, Australia, South America, Southeast Asia, China and Japan at that time.
Huang Liushuang also returned to China to visit her family and travel. When she returned to Shanghai, she said emotionally: "Being able to be with the vast majority of Shanghai compatriots is a day I have been looking forward to!"
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