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Lädt ... Assigned to Adventure (Original 1938; 2018. Auflage)von Irene Corbally Kuhn (Autor)
Werk-InformationenAssigned to Adventure von Irene Corbally Kuhn (1938)
Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It took me quite a while to read this book, not because I struggled, but because I wanted to savor it. Her writing style, the language and turn of phrase, her incredible memory for details made this a book to enjoy slowly. Luxuriate in the words. But understand this is not a tell-all book in the celebrity style. Although she discusses her marriage to Burt and the birth of her child, these are nearly incidental to her life and career. It only sets up the circumstances of her returning to the US from China. But I don't fault her because I believe her purpose in writing this book is to discuss her career which was extremely interesting and a product of her own initiative. Pass on the fictionalized version and stick to these facts. It makes me want to read her newspaper articles. ![]() ![]() If Irene Corbally Khun had been the main character of a comic book then as a fictional character, she could have been drawn by Herge, as he drew Tintin, also a reporter, travelling to the Far-East by boat through Port-Said in Egypt and the Canal of Suez on his way to the international concession in Shanghai, as narrated in "The Cigars of the Pharaoh" and the "Blue Lotus". The difference is that Tintin remains a fiction while Irene really existed. A Gertrude Bell of the East, her description of the still mysterious China is compelling. But unlike Tintin, Mrs. Khun makes the reader enter vividly the Shanghai of the times of playwright John Colton, as filmed by Director Josef Von Sternberg. She does not hesitate to cross the lines between the organized international settlement to confront herself and report about the real China and its challenges. Along the way, she meets her husband, also a reporter, and many celebrities pepper this book, from Charles Chaplin, Harry Pilser, Douglas Fairbanks, Russian exiles from the Revolution, Admirals, Atamans,Aviators, Colonels, Generals, Warlords and, most strikingly, ordinary Chinese people from the No.1 of her expat household to the street beggar. With the axiom that "the longer you stay in China, the less you understand it" her depiction and vignettes are always interesting. Excellent period memoirs with many first time events narrated with humor and a lots of insights on how the USA and Japan, members of the Entente at the end of World War I, maintained cordial relations to contain the spread of Communism. Ominously, the author notices the rising Chinese nationalism against Japan and the first revolutionary incidents. At the same time the somber masses of the American dreadnoughts anchored at large portend a rising a world conflict at one of its flashpoints. ![]() Her travels through various countries and experiences with the people and cultures there are handled with a level of whimsy that is both incredibly entertaining and also why I removed one star. While it is written in the style of the time, I'd like a more personal take on her life; I'd like a take where it was like we were good friends talking and I wasn't someone she was selling an article to. Still, this is a very fun read and she sounds like an incredible woman. For anyone with an interest in journalism, travel, or even the old-way either of those professions ran, this is definitely a book to read. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The 21st Century has turned the journalistic world upside down, but the 19th and most of the 20th Century could be defined as the Golden Age of Journalism, a time when reporters were respected, even glamorous. Add to that list Irene Corbally Kuhn. With an illustrious career spanning from 1920 through the 1980s she was a ground-breaking journalist working in a male-dominated profession and world. She was a trail blazer because she demonstrated an uncanny ability to write not just stories assumed best written by women, but aggressively looked for those normally held by her male counterparts. Assigned to Adventure is Irene's personal story of her career through 1937. Originally published in 1938, this is a republished second edition with a foreword by Irene's granddaughter, Heather Corbally Bryant, a writing lecturer at Wellesley College and an author/poet of her own right. Read it for insight into what it took for a woman to be successful in that era. Read it for fun with the many humorous and engaging stories of Irene's life as a reporter for world class newspapers such as the New York Daily News, the Paris Tribune, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the New York World-Telegram and Shanghai's China Press which then transitioned into a career as a Hollywood screenwriter and radio broadcaster for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, NBC, and CBS.Through it all, you'll quickly see that this is a woman for all ages, one to be admired by the young and old, male or female, dreamers or realists. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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