- Yang Lan
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name = Yang Lan
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| birth_place =Beijing ,China
birth_date = birth date and age|1968|3|29
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occupation =Businesswoman
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website =Yang Lan (zh-cp |c=杨澜 |p=Yáng Lán; born
March 29 ,1968 ) is a Chinesebusinesswoman , talk show hostess, and co-owner with her husbandWu Zheng ofSun Television Cybernetworks inShanghai ,China .Biography
Personal and business life
Yang was born in
Beijing to a father who was an English professor atBeijing Foreign Studies University and a mother who was an engineer. After she marriedHong Kong entrepreneurWu Zheng , she became co-owner with him of a new media company,Sun Television Cybernetworks . [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/22/talkasia.yanglan/index.html Yang Lan: China's 'Oprah' - CNN.com ] ] . She also became one of China's richest business people, according toForbes Magazine . [http://members.forbes.com/global/2001/1112/032_61.html China's 100 Richest Business People - Forbes.com ] ] Before her marriage, however, Ms. Yang was one of China's most well-known television hostesses.Yang Lan is also a media baron and corporate entrepreneur with her husband Bruno Wu. They own numerous businesses together including Morgen Evan Redrock, which is a joint venture between the couple's Redrock Capital Co and the worldwide investment banking firm Morgen Evan & Co. Morgen Evan & Co is co-owned by investment banker Mark J. Lerner and his wife, Stephanie Freund Lerner
Yang holds a
Masters Degree fromColumbia University , after having attended theBeijing Foreign Studies University .Comparison to Oprah Winfrey
Yang is the creator of the hugely popular internet website for woman,
Her Village . With her celebrity, media empire and popularity among women, Yang has often been compared with Oprah Winfrey. She has been called "China's Oprah Winfrey," although others would disagree, calling Oprah "America's Yang Lan," and proposing tongue-in-cheek that Yang, in fact, will become bigger than Ms. Winfrey on a global scale. [http://yang-lan.blogspot.com] ]References
External links
* [http://hervillage.com.cn Her Village]
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