Anthony Kuhn

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As NPR's Beijing Correspondent, Anthony Kuhn reports on China and Northeast Asia.

Through his reporting, Kuhn covers such stories as how a resurgent China is affecting the world; diplomacy and the environment; the ancient cultural traditions that still exert a profound influence in today's China; and the people's quest for social justice in a period of rapid modernization and uneven development.

In 2004-2005, Kuhn was based in London. He covered stories ranging from the 2005 terrorist attacks on London's transport system to the sale of the Manchester United soccer team. In the spring of 2005, he reported from Iraq on the formation of the post-election interim government.

Kuhn began contributing reports to NPR from China in 1996. During that time, Kuhn also worked as an accredited freelance reporter with the Los Angeles Times, and as Beijing correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Before being drawn to China, Kuhn was an enthusiastic student of the Romance languages. He studied Greek and Latin in high school and college and received his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored in French literature. For several years, Kuhn worked on Manhattan's Lower East Side as a social worker. He studied language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, and later completed a graduate-level course at the Johns Hopkins University/Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing.

When not busy at work, he can occasionally be glimpsed darting down Beijing's old alleyways on his bicycle.