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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

Happy holidays.

My present to you is you get to hear from Kara Swisher, famed podcaster, columnist, all-around, awesome person.

Today, Kara is interviewing How Wu, director of a new documentary called People's Republic of Desire.

Kara also talked to Loretta Chow.

She's a former Wall Street Journal reporter who covers tech in China.

Okay, enough for me.

Here is Kara.

Today in the red chair is Howe Wu, the director of a new documentary, People's Republic of Desire.

It's about the people who stream their lives online

and what the phenomena is doing for human relationships in China. Also, joining us for this

conversation is the Rettah Chow, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has covered the tech

industry in China. So talk a little bit about sort of the way you got to this story. It's a really something I've been talking about China a lot and the impact of China.

The New York Times has had a very, is having a large series about the impact of China technologically, especially in another ways,

and sort of that they're living the American dream.

So why don't you talk about how you got to this topic?

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