Known as China’s Oprah, she’s a petite 30-something Chinese chat show hostess, who invites celebrities and ordinary people onto her sofa to talk about their lives, and tell their stories.
But her programme, A Date with Chen Luyu, is part of a dramatic upheaval that’s taking place in China’s media industry.
Ever since the communists came to power in 1949, television, radio and newspapers in China have been little more than a heavily censored government mouthpiece.
Now widespread economic reforms and the arrival of the internet might slowly be weakening the government’s once tight grip.
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