Meet Yang Lan. She's been called "China's Oprah Winfrey", and it's an apt comparison - except for the fact that the show Ms.Lan used to host, the Zheng Da Variety Show, had 30 times the weekly viewers as the one Ms. Winfrey hosts. Yang Lan is the co-founder of China's second-biggest privately-owned media company, co-owns a jewelry company with Celine Dion, was Beijing's "image ambassador" for the 2008 Olympic Games, and her current show Her Village, aimed at young Chinese women, has a website that reaches 200 million people monthly.
So why should we care? Because Yang Lan, who has a masters in international affairs from Columbia (which she attended after hosting the world's biggest show, without her classmates knowing she was a mega star in China) just got Hollywood representation, and is interested in "expanding her brand" here. We don't know why exactly she's coming, but oh, she's coming.
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