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Show's beauty shaded by political message
2008-01-14Punch Shaw from American Star-Telegram revealed the true face of Chinese New Year Spectacular held by Falun Gong on January 9. He said, the show is shaded by political message.
On January 23, 2001( the eve of Chinese New Year), while Chinese people were hailing the first Spring Festival of the new century, an unexpected tragedy shocked the whole world: 7 Falun Gong practitioners from Kaifeng City of Henan Province burned themselves collectively on the Tian'anmen Square at ...
Last year, PhD. Cynematic's parents saw the "Chinese New Year Spectacular", then commented "I was offended! I felt cheated!" "It's like christian science, only worse." Cynematic writes their experiences down and calls on everybody not to attend the show for going to the Spectacular is like attending...
Punch Shaw from American Star-Telegram revealed the true face of Chinese New Year Spectacular held by Falun Gong on January 9. He said, the show is shaded by political message.
Alexander L. Dvorkin, Ph.D. is a famous religious study expert and travels thousands of miles annually to lecture about the dangers of sects and cults. But the trip in Ukraine in the end of 2007 was different from others for Falun Gong's attending. What did happen? Dr. Dvorkin will tell you.
Promotional fliers for NTDTV's Chinese New Year Spectacular describe the show as a celebration of "The Renaissance of Divine Chinese Arts". What's the true face of the so-called Chinese New Year Spectacular? Los Angeles Times reported for you on January 7.
A giant blossoming rose, a pickup truck that morphed into a spacecraft, and a Chinese dragon undulating in the breeze brought cheers from thousands of spectators as those floats and others rolled by Tuesday in the Rose Parade. Those who spent New Year's Eve camped curbside were joined at dawn by gid...
The Beijing 2008 Olympics float was focused during the 2008 New Year's Day Rose Parade. Tournament of Rose Parade and Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard has resisted the sabotages from Falun Gong. Media presuppose that the failed Falun Gong wouldn't be willing to give up, they would make appeals as usual. ...
Critics of China's government hoped to use the elaborate float and its worldwide stage at the Rose Parade on Tuesday as a rallying point. But despite months of news conferences and protests, China foes have done little to change the parade's plans and have generated little support -- or interest -- ...
Falun Gong preaches its grand "Holiday Wonders" with highly flame. In fact, in order to promote the sales of unsalable tickets, Falun Gong racking their brains to figer out all kinds of selling methods, such as advertising through the media, donating the tickets to the "disadvantaged" people and sup...
At Festival Artists in Azusa, workers are doing final painting and prep work on a float from China, which celebrates the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. One of about 46 float entries to be featured in the Rose Parade on New Year's Day, it's received the most publicity, acting as a lightning rod for cri...
Citing security concerns, Police Chief Bernard Melekian on Tuesday rejected a proposal by critics of China to precede the Tournament of Pasadena Roses parade with a human-rights march down Colorado Boulevard, according to Whittier Daily News on December 18.
Craig S. Smith, a famous reporter of New York Times once in charge as a correspondent in Shanghai, and reported some articles about Falun Gong, such as "American dream finds Chinese spiritual leader" in The Wall Street Journal on November 1, 1999. In this article, he expressed that Falun Gong is no ...
It is illegal there to be a member of the group. The medical facility at Sujiatun is supposed to be ground zero of the worst abuses, a hospital of horrors where doctors extracted organs from more than 2,000 Falun Gong adherents before incinerating their bodies in the boiler room. But after visiting ...
Rocked by accusations of rights abuses, China is cracking down on organ trafficking. As Glen McGregor writes from Beijing, new regulations have made organs more rare and spurred a western-style campaign for education, donor cards and registries.
As active members of the Chinese civil societies, we have long been critical of Falun Gong even before the group's massive protests in April 1999. Your article China's Steadfast Sect, August 23, 2000, p a18 missed an important theological point of Falun Gong. The Falun Wheel of the Law is not a bor...