Anthony Kuhn

{{Short description|American radio journalists}}

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|education=Washington University in St. Louis
Hopkins-Nanjing Center

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|website=[https://www.npr.org/people/4458700/anthony-kuhn Official NPR biography]

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Anthony Kuhn ({{zh|s=孔安|t=|p=Kǒng Ān}}) is the National Public Radio correspondent in Seoul, South Korea.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2018/08/01/634626480/newsroom-moves-for-nprs-elise-hu-and-anthony-kuhn|title=Newsroom Moves For NPR's Elise Hu and Anthony Kuhn|date=2018-08-01|work=NPR Extra|access-date=2019-03-08|language=en-US}} He was previously NPR's correspondent in Beijing, China.{{Cite news|url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/philip-alden-kuhn-82/|title=Philip Alden Kuhn, 82|date=2018-02-07|work=Harvard Gazette|access-date=2018-02-13|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=http://hawaiipublicradio.org/people/anthony-kuhn?page=4|title=Anthony Kuhn|work=Hawai'i Public Radio|access-date=2018-02-13|language=en}} Before his roles in South Korea and China, he served as NPR correspondent for Southeast Asia based in Jakarta, in which capacity he opened NPR's first bureau there,{{Cite news|url=https://saisobserver.org/2015/10/05/npr-correspondent-anthony-kuhn-on-reporting-from-china/|title=NPR Correspondent Anthony Kuhn on Reporting from China|last=Stewart|first=Chase|date=2015-10-05|work=SAIS Observer|access-date=2018-02-13|language=en-US}} as well as in London.{{Cite news|url=http://wshu.org/people/anthony-kuhn#stream/0|title=Anthony Kuhn|work=WSHU Sacred Heart University Public Radio|access-date=2018-02-13|language=en}} A graduate in French Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, he earned a graduate certificate in Chinese Studies from the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/people/4458700/anthony-kuhn|title=Anthony Kuhn: International Correspondent in Beijing, China|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-13}} He attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite news|url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20090618/NEWS/306188826|title=Melrose High Achievers|work=Wicked Local|access-date=2018-02-13|language=en}}

Kuhn, who was NPR's correspondent in Beijing for years and reported on stories throughout China{{Cite news|url=http://hsb.hsw.cn/2013-08/28/content_8509243.htm|title=美国记者西安访饺子|last=邓|first=小卫|date=August 28, 2013|work=华商报|access-date=February 14, 2018|archive-date=February 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214073618/http://hsb.hsw.cn/2013-08/28/content_8509243.htm|url-status=dead}} and the broader region, gained national attention in China when a video of him asking questions at a government press conference in fluent Mandarin became popular on the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo (China's answer to Twitter) in March 2017.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/03/18/519216823/for-years-ive-been-a-correspondent-in-china-this-month-i-became-a-viral-star|title=For Years, I've Been A Correspondent In China. This Month, I Became A Viral Star|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-02-13|language=en}} On August 1, 2018, NPR announced Kuhn will become their next Seoul correspondent as Elise Hu will be moving to NPR West.

He is the son of the late Harvard professor and sinologist Philip A. Kuhn.{{Cite web|url=http://english.cntv.cn/20101105/102463.shtml|title=Philip A. Kuhn: Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations CCTV News - CNTV English|website=english.cntv.cn|access-date=2018-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213195338/http://english.cntv.cn/20101105/102463.shtml|archive-date=2018-02-13|url-status=dead}}