My daughter commented on the ubiquitousness of Shen Yun's marketing as we sat in the Harris Theater the other night waiting for the ballet to begin and perusing the Playbill. Shen Yun had taken a full-page ad. "I see this picture everywhere," she noted.
On the 10th day of the twelfth lunar month in 1998, a Falun Gong practitioner from came to our village to teach it. As a lover of Qigong, I registered to become a member with hesitation in order to have a good body.
Shi Hongbo, male, was born in June 1969 in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China. He once rented a house in Xianjin Street, Jinzhou District in Dalian. On Feb. 28th 2011, he died of lung cancer for refusing to receive medical treatment.
The year 1996 was a turning point in my life. I encountered my wife’s sudden death before Spring Festival, and my son’s conviction of embezzlement the following April. Haunted by the nightmare and dreadful reality of these two accidents, I no longer trusted anyone. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1996...
The thing has passed for a few years, but I still have a panic fear when I think of it. If I had believed the heresy on eliminating karma of Falun Gong and refused to take medicine and had the operation in time , I am afraid, I wouldn’t be alive today. In these few years, I have been coming along we...
My name is Wang Daozhi, 48, living on Mingguang Road Shuanghe Town Huaying City, Sichuan Province. I once had an intact and happy family. But since my parents were obsessed in Falun Gong, my home was not like a home any longer.
The old age usually refers to the life phase from 60 years old to death. Since 2008, I have come into contact with 15 Falun Gong addicts of old age, summed up their features in common, and made a probe into how to help them rid of Falun Gong's mind control and rest a happy life in their old age.
His contention that Falun Gong belongs to a tradition dating to White Lotus is credible. The group's emergence and its suppression do suggest that modern Chinese history is as much about continuity as revolutionary change. But the book also subordinates a gripping tale to a somewhat less scintillati...
I did not think very much about this until I actually saw the show and realized that the show although featuring traditional Chinese dance does present a very religious and political message. I must commend the Shen Yun group for being bold enough to present their ideals as part of their art but I m...
After viewing this flamboyant performance, I came to the conclusion that the show itself was dated and requires much modernization. There was not much difference between the show I saw 6 years ago to this recent production. I came out of the theatre disappointed and saddened by the fact that with so...
The day of September 2, 2011 is the first anniversary of my mother’s passing away. Early in the day, when I came with my brother and sister to Mother's grave burning incense for worship, we were all depressed and sad.
Charles Custer has another great post at ChinaGeeks that touches upon a theme that have been popular on CNR recently: extremism, truths in the middle, and the understanding we "desperately, desperately need." It also helps that he uses the well-known Falun Gong as something of a lightning rod to mak...
I don't know if the Chinese really will take over the world. But one day last week, they took over my neighborhood. I was on my way home from the grocery store, taking the hair pin turn onto my hillside street, only to find the access blocked by an old white station wagon.
Good evening. I just got back from a production of Shenyun. And unfortunately, we wound up walking out about three quarters of the way through, because unbe noticed us what was been promoted as a Chinese acrobatic dance troupe and production.
There's a creepy edge to this celebration of Chinese traditional art. The dances go from bland to pretty, with lines of dancers fluttering sleeves or posing in front of digital backdrops. Many numbers have a lurking evangelical air, offering crass solutions for China's human-rights abuses.