CHINA-SOCIAL-MEDIA-TECHNOLOGY-LIFESTYLE

This photo taken on May 20, 2021 shows Kou Aizhe, host of Chinese podcast "StoryFM", editing audio files on his laptop at the office in Beijing. - A lesbian coming to terms with her sexuality, a village covering up abuses and a dissection of the three-child policy -- an explosion of Chinese podcasts are wrestling with social issues in ways unlike the state-filtered media. - TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-SOCIETY-MEDIA-TECHNOLOGY-LIFESTYLE,FOCUS BY BEIYI SEOW AND JADE GAO (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-SOCIETY-MEDIA-TECHNOLOGY-LIFESTYLE,FOCUS BY BEIYI SEOW AND JADE GAO (Photo by JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images)