Marketing American Anxiety:

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Marketing American Anxiety

• The Influence of Popular Culture on Journalist
  Irene Kuhns Perspective of Modern Chinese
  History
• By Jenna Masters

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The Irene Corbally Kuhn Collection

• Personal Documents
• Newspaper Clippings
• Records of her Broadcasts
• Syndicated Columns
• Pictures of family and her travels

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Biography of Irene Kuhn

• Newspaper
• Broadcasting
• Author
• Screenwriter

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Kuhns Notable Accomplishments

• 1939- She hosted a popular radio show
  interviewing popular personalities of the time
• 1945- 1st woman to broadcast from the orient over
  KRC Shanghai
• 1st Correspondent to broadcast from liberated
  Shanghai and Manila
• 1st Women to broadcast from a naval vessel U.S.S.
  Rocky Mount flagship of 7th fleet
• War correspondent NBC in Chunking and Shanghai

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1930s Xenophobia The Mask of Fu Manchu vs.
Assigned to Adventure
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1960s 1970s Anti- Communist Movement

• Avid Anti-Communist
• Believed in the GMD in Taiwan
• Contributed to the propaganda of the
  anti-communist movement
• Used her outlets in media for her own political
  agenda

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Conclusions

• Irene Kuhn sought fame through the changing
  importance of American journalists
• Divine Destiny
• Popular culture influenced her early career
• Popular culture was influenced by her later
  career

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Marketing American Anxiety

• The Influence of Popular Culture on Journalist
  Irene Kuhns Perspective of Modern Chinese
  History
• By Jenna Masters