{"id":9285,"date":"2022-10-21T12:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T06:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:52:45","slug":"anna-may-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/anna-may-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna May Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Anna May Wong:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Her birth name was Wong Liu-Tsong.<\/li>\n<li>She was born to second-generation Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Wong started her film career at the age of 14 as an extra in\u00a0The Red Lantern\u00a0(1919).<\/li>\n<li>She gained critical acclaim only three years later when she played the leading role in\u00a0The Toll of the Sea\u00a0(1922), one of the first Technicolour films.<\/li>\n<li>She was also the first Asian American leading actor in a television show,\u00a0The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong\u00a0(1951).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>American Women Quarters Program:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The American Women Quarters Program is a four-year program that celebrates the accomplishments and contributions made by women to the development and history of U.S.A.<\/li>\n<li>Beginning in 2022, and continuing through 2025, the U.S. Mint will issue up to five new reverse designs each year.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The American Women Quarters may feature contributions from a variety of fields, suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts. The women honored will be from ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse backgrounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/who-was-actress-anna-may-wong-the-first-asian-american-to-be-featured-on-us-currency-8220955\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna May Wong was the first Asian American leading actor in a television show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}