How to pronounce “moy” in English

Afong Moy's life as a traveler, as a hawker of Chinese goods, and herself an object of exotic interest, led her from 1834 to 1837 to cities

Afong Moy's treatment and the issues she faced are really reflective of this period.

Afong Moy, without facility in English, couldn't do that.

Afong Moy was caught in a tug-of-war between the two factions, the nativists and the French Creoles.

So MoyaMoya is quite a rare disease.

la moyenne devient prescriptive, normative.

And Moya and I joined then.

And Moyers is asking great questions and Pollan is giving great answers.

called Moyle Construction and Moyle's a big name up there. And the Moyle Construction actually went to the property owners and said, "We'll split the cost with you if you'll let

referring to Afong Moy and a Cleopatra figure modeled on a Pottawatomie Indian-- are becoming classic property, with skin of half-baked brick

Like Afong Moy, American Indians were the subject of public presentations in the 1830s stage.

So after Afong Moy engages the slavery in the South, and issues of race, she now gets the full effect

While Afong Moy was presenting about China and associated objects, Margaret Pryor rushed her on the stage.

Just before Afong Moy arrived, mobs had turned on the black community there, burned their homes, attacked

who found Afong Moy in the far reaches of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Barnum paired Afong Moy with another one of his show-stoppers, Charles Stratton, a.k.a.

The story of Afong Moy began as it ended, shrouded in the inconclusive and in the indefinite, a search for her name

But Afong Moy's story is powerful precisely because it's unrecorded, because it conveys early 19th century

Ça fait partie des moyens de faire accepter, de montrer ce que c'est.

Il y a moyen de savoir Mais bon peu importe, oui c'est comme ça.

Faudra trouver le moyen, parce que sinon les pays qui n'ont pas ces limites seront en avance sur le monde entier.

pendant le moyen-âge où on montrait à la personne qui était le roi dans son royaume l'impôt qu’il pouvait collecter, les populations dont il disposait s'il voulait partir en guerre.

I'm Moya Angela. I play Momma, Althea, and Mrs. Williams-- or Miss Williams, she ain't married.

At one point Bill Moyer asked him, he said, so, Joseph.

down in the Moynihan sense, over some coffee and a big bowl of facts.

As Bill Moyers put it, "Lewis Lapham speaks the truth to power and wealth in each issue of America's oldest political journal in the essays he writes, in the articles he publishes,

now by Dambisa Moyo, who's kind of repeating for taking up Easterly's argument, is that, you know, aid is not the right way to do it. There's a better financing mechanisms and

- I'm pretty sure Moynihan said explicitly on an episode that we recorded recently that looking into space terrifies him.

was allowed into Guangzhou to accompany Afong Moy out of China.

But here's where Afong Moy comes into the picture.

That's the way Afong Moy would have been serving as a brander for the Carnes' merchandise.

So this paucity of records regarding Afong Moy for some time really disheartened my efforts.

In developing the story of Afong Moy, it was important for me to place her in the America, of this time.

It looks at the way Afong Moy affected American life at the time.

So some audience members who approached Afong Moy were really well-intentioned, but their approach

One of the episodes apparently staged Afong Moy eating with chopsticks with Tom Thumb trying to do the same, and probably everybody thought it was pretty hilarious.

not actually even started uh is Will Moy uh a London based uh the founder and

Ce n'est pas forcément le meilleur moyen de leur donner confiance en eux et l'envie justement de révéler tout ce qu'ils ont de génial.

Donc on essaie de trouver un moyen de faire contribuer des gens sans que ça soit un forum ou le bricoleur du dimanche,

Thank god I married a Moyer.

We don't know if Moynihan actually said it, who said it, or what the exact quote is, because irony remains the fundamental law of the universe.

So how did this Chinese girl variously known as Afong Moy, though I think probably that was a name given to her, get to New York City in 1834,

Probably, Afong Moy the daughter of a Guangzhou Cantonese Chinese merchant or a Chinese comprador.

The other part of understanding who she was is that Afong Moy had bound feet.

by bringing attention to this cargo with Afong Moy who hawked their goods.

about Benjamin Franklin's sister than I had on Afong Moy.

Here what you're seeing is a view of Afong Moy in her New York salon in 1834-35 by artists Charles Rizzo and William Brown.

And the book also addresses how and what Afong Moy was able to share about China and also how Americans responded to her commentary.

Now, Afong Moy was not enslaved, but she was also not free.