Chinanews.com, June 28. Hollywood’s first Chinese-American movie star Huang Liushuang will board the US 25-cent commemorative coin. Qiaobao.com published a comment on "Huang Liushuang boarded the American coin, the Chinese continue to write the Hollywood legend" to commemorate her achievement .

　　The full text is excerpted as follows:

　　Next year, when people want to toss a coin to make a decision, they can no longer ask the other person to choose the heads or tails, but instead ask: "Washington or Huang Liushuang?"

　　The Federal Mint recently announced the launch of the "American Women's 25-cent Commemorative Coin Project". It plans to issue 5 new versions of 25-cent coins every year from 2022 to 2025, featuring portraits of outstanding American women of different ethnicities and fields. , To commemorate their achievements.

Among the 5 women in the first year of the program, there are Hollywood’s first African-American female screenwriter Maya Angelou, the first native Indian Cherokee chief female chief Wilma Mankiller, and the first Hispanic female Adelina Otero to run for Congress. Warren, Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut to enter space, and Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood, Huang Liushuang.

　　There is a catchphrase on social networks, "I am not RMB, so everyone can not like it", which means that everyone will encounter mixed external evaluations, so don't care too much.

Huang Liushuang, who is about to be printed on the currency of circulation that "everyone likes", was loved by some people at the peak of his career in the 1920s and 1930s, and was despised or even spurned by others.

In the face of harsh criticism, her tolerance and courage are commendable.

　　In 1919, 14-year-old Huang Liushuang stepped into the film industry. At the age of 17, she became famous in the film industry with a movie called "The Sea Die." In 1936, as a third-generation immigrant, she went to China to "seeking roots" and was influenced by Gu Weijun and Mei Lanfang. The hospitality of celebrities such as Hu Die and Hu Die; not long after returning to the United States, the War of Resistance against Japan broke out. She made two anti-Japanese films, and donated all the money and the proceeds from the sale of private jewelry to support China's War of Resistance... She is blameless on acting and righteousness. .

However, her family did not like her role as an oriental lover.

Although Huang Liushuang worked hard to take on the role of positive Asian women in the later period, she did not have much choice in the general environment at the time.

She also publicly questioned: "Why are Chinese people on the screen almost always villains... How could we be like this? Our civilization is several times older than that of the West."

　　Moreover, at that time, the American film censorship regulations "Hays Code" prohibited the presence of interracial emotional drama on the screen, which made Huang Liushuang doomed to miss the heroine.

The biggest blow to her career was the remake of Pearl Buck’s masterpiece, the rare film "Earth" that showed the image of a Chinese positively. She failed to fight for the heroine. In the end, a white actor starred in a Chinese farmer couple with a female lead. Later, he won the Oscar for the film.

　　It was the best era—Huang Liushuang caught up with the golden age of Hollywood, which developed rapidly from silent films to sound and color films; it was also the worst era—the Chinese Exclusion Act had prevailed for more than half a century, and it was not only difficult for Chinese women to be the protagonists. , The real emotional life is also affected.

　　In 1961, 56-year-old Huang Liushuang died of a heart attack at home.

In another 60 years, the Chinese will have a place in Hollywood. They can star in Disney's princesses, Marvel's superheroes, and win shining trophies such as the Oscar for best director and Golden Globe actress.

　　As a predecessor to Hollywood, Huang Liushuang will use 25-cent coins to meet today’s people in various consumer scenes next year, and use her life to remind people that although the Chinese Exclusion Act has long been thrown into the garbage dump of history, it is aimed at Discrimination based on ethnicity and gender is still lurking around like a virus, taking advantage of the extraordinary moments like the epidemic to emerge.

Regardless of the ethnic Chinese or other ethnic minorities, to achieve a counterattack such as "from the laundryman's daughter to the Hollywood legend", it is not enough to rely on personal struggle. It is also necessary to work together to promote the course of history and create a civilization of equal opportunity and diversity. society.

(Cheng Ran)