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''A Date With Luyu'' (also spelled ''A Date With Lu Yu'') () is a popular
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television talk show that airs on Phoenix Television. Because the show emulates the success and format of '' The Oprah Winfrey Show'', its host and creator,
Chen Luyu Chen Luyu (), born 12 June 1970, is a Chinese journalist and talk show host with Phoenix Television. She has been described as "China's Oprah" owing to the popularity of her talk show. She hosts the talk show programme ''A Date With Luyu''.
, has been called "China's Oprah". The show includes a studio audience of about 300. The show covers a wide range of issues: interviewees range from artists and musicians such as
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, business leaders such as Robin Li, diplomatic figures such as US ambassador to China
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, academics such as Prof Michael Dobson and sports figures such as
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. She is also willing to address controversial subjects. It is noted that some interviews are conducted in English, with Chinese subtitles, as was the cases when Lu Yu interviewed Wentworth Miller, Nick Vujicic, and Hillary Clinton with Timothy Geithner.WSJ Blog
/ref> Audience members are required to understand English in these instances, because Lu Yu has warned about problems with interviews being done entirely in a single language, i.e. Mandarin Chinese. Luyu averages 140 million viewers per show.


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External links

* Chen Luyu's Autobiography
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*MacDonald, James (March 4, 2007).

. '' CNN''. Retrieved on March 5, 2007. *Liu, Melinda (October 10, 2005).
The Last Word: Chen Luyu
. '' Newsweek International Edition''. Retrieved on March 5, 2007. Chinese television shows Chinese television talk shows 1990s Chinese television series 1998 Chinese television series debuts 2000s Chinese television series 2010s Chinese television series Phoenix Television original programming Mandarin-language television shows {{Asia-tv-prog-stub