Yue-Sai Kan on the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Yue-Sai Kan is an Emmy-winning television host and producer, successful businesswoman and entrepreneur, fashion icon, bestselling author and humanitarian. People magazine called her “the most famous woman in China and Time magazine proclaimed her “the Queen of the Middle Kingdom.” Born in China and raised in Hong Kong, Yue-Sai moved to New York City in 1972, where she founded Yue-Sai Kan Productions and created a weekly television series “Looking East”, the first of its kind to introduce Asian cultures and customs to a growing and receptive American audience. The series garnered critical acclaim and won dozens of awards, and lasted 12 years. Based on this and other work, Yue-Sai was mentioned in the US Congressional Record and credited as the first TV journalist to connect the East and the West. Ms. Kan has been instrumnetal bringing pandas to New York City along with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and businessman John Catsimatidis.