"A year ago I had many doubts about myself, about what I could and could not do. This year I realized I had become an adult, that I was able to walk alone and that there is nothing that I cannot do." She enters the hall of a boutique hotel in Peking, where we are to meet, accompanied by three assistants. Black leather figure-hugging pants, male-style booties, military jacket and cap lowered over her face to cover her gaze. Li Yuchun is a star, but not just any star. She is the first star born from Chinese television and is also the first Chinese star that has never been afraid to be herself. Twenty-six years old, androgynous physique, abroad she is known as Chris Lee. Born into a modest family from Sichuan, her father is a railway policeman and her mother a housewife, at the age of eighteen she decided, against the wishes of her parents, not to enroll into university but to study music at the conservatory. In 2005, at the age of twenty-one, she presented herself at the selections of Supergirl, the Chinese version of American Idol. Amongst 150 thousand contending, she went up on stage in a pair of cargo pants, a black shirt and a haircut that recalls David Bowie at the time of Ziggy Stardust, to sing a song by a male musician. China, used to girls-dolls with backcombed hair and bright lipstick, has welcomed her as a heroine.