Anna May Wong Honored
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The new Anna May Wong quarters are here, issued by The US Mint as part of a set honoring five women achievers and trailblazers: writer and civil right activist Maya Angelou, Astronaut Sally Ride, Native American activist, and former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller, suffragist, educator, and politician Nina Otero-Warren. And for the fifth coin, the US Mint selected none other than movie star, entertainer, activist, and fashion icon Anna May Wong, one of the women featured in this CHP-159 episode that looks at Chinese American Stars and Entertainers of Old Hollywood.
CHP-159 remains one of my personal all-time favorite CHP episodes. I put that one out back in 2015, complete with much less than optimal audio. I cleaned it up a little and added an intro. And today, in recognition of the release of this new coin, I'm bringing back this episode for anyone who missed it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Lossal Montgomery here. I don't do this that often, but considering the situation, |
| 0:06.4 | I decided, eh, what the hey. It's not every day when someone from a previous CHP episode |
| 0:11.7 | is selected to be the first Asian American featured on any United States currency. |
| 0:17.2 | This probably didn't make your news feeds for any of your social media platforms, but |
| 0:22.1 | the US government launched an American Women Quarters program this year. It's going to |
| 0:27.7 | run till 2025. In each year, the US Mint is going to issue a set of five quarters that will |
| 0:33.7 | depict five women per year, who made great accomplishments and contributions to the development |
| 0:40.0 | in history of the United States. And for the first five, which you can get right now, they feature |
| 0:46.1 | writer and civil rights activists, Maya Angelou, astronaut Sally Ride, Cherokee Nation activist |
| 0:53.0 | and former chief Wilma Mankiller, suffragist educator and politician Nina Otero Warren, |
| 1:00.2 | and for the fifth one, the US Mint selected none other than Anna May Wong, one of the women featured |
| 1:06.8 | in this CHP 159 episode that looks at Chinese American stars and entertainers of old Hollywood. |
| 1:14.5 | I've produced hundreds of episodes for the China History Podcast, the Chinese Sayings Podcast, |
| 1:20.6 | T History Podcast. And I must say this one right here, episode 159, is one of my personal favorites. |
| 1:28.8 | And I hope you enjoy it. If you haven't heard it yet, I myself just gave it a re-listen the other day. |
| 1:34.4 | And let me say again, this is one of my faves from the entire CHP back catalog. |
| 1:41.9 | So to commemorate this achievement, I wanted to honor and show respect for the life of Anna May |
| 1:46.8 | Wong by re-releasing this classic from 2015. And this episode came out three years before the |
| 1:53.9 | blockbuster John Chu film, Crazy Rich Asians. What a great sensation that film was. |
| 2:01.0 | Well, 80 years before the international acclaim and success of Crazy Rich Asians, |
| 2:07.1 | there was Anna May Wong. It's too bad she didn't live to see how much she's appreciated in our time |
| 2:13.1 | and how she is today so often held up as a role model in our American society. |
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