Media analyst Ying Zhu looks at the role China’s highest rated television network, China Central Television (CCTV), is playing in shaping China’s culture and future. The hybrid nature of the network has made it an unexpected site of discourse in a country that has little official space for negotiation. In Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China’s Central Television, she presents a series of interviews with power players, current and past presidents of CCTV, and producers.