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You may have already watched or heard of a Shen Yun performance, especially given it’s been touring the world for over a decade. But for those unfamiliar with Shen Yun Performing Arts — it’s a non-profit traditional Chinese dance and music performance backed by a symphony orchestra that blends Western and Chinese instruments. Multiple Shen ...
Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, is often remembered for his communist ideologies and revolutionary practices. However, a lesser-known aspect of Mao’s life might surprise many, particularly those familiar with the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Let’s delve into Mao’s intriguing relationship with superstition and the mystical events surrounding ...
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the main character, Winston Smith, rewrites history at the Ministry of Truth, where he is a lowly cog in the Party’s propaganda machine manipulating Oceania’s people. Published in 1949, the novel is a warning for the free world about totalitarianism as has been witnessed in places such as Nazi ...
Mr. Yang said persecuted entrepreneurs like him are too numerous in his home province and country. The common characteristic of attacks is that they begin with heavy, underhanded threats and intimidation, and evidence is manufactured; this soon escalates into a fictitious crime. Arrests soon follow; the case is then made public to intimidate the public; ...
Mr. Yang, one of China’s highly successful entrepreneurs now living in exile, recounted how he changed his thinking from being a staunch supporter of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to resolutely opposing its existence. Mr. Yang lives in Toronto, Canada. Before his exile, he was the chairman of a large and prosperous company in a ...
Where has the “Merkel Era” gone, and why have China-German relations changed so much? Recently, a friend related the shocking experience of a wealthy German businessman setting up a business in China. It may be helpful for other business people considering doing business in that communist stronghold. This is an eye-opening experience but not unusual ...
One fateful day in 2022, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) public security officers came pounding on Zhang Yuxuan’s door and shouted: “You know what you have done.” Then, they took him to the Public Security Bureau, asked him to sign a confession, and left him there for four or five hours before releasing him. The ‘red ...
One evening, around 9 o’clock, a young Taiwanese man named Zhang Yuxuan was scrolling through his mobile phone in his rented apartment in Shanghai when suddenly, he heard a crashing bang, and the front door was smashed open. Several public security officers of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) barged in, grabbed a hold of him, ...
According to the Chinese Cultural Revolution Library (third edition), on April 20, 1968, Lu Hongen and 14 other detainees in the cell were called to the guidance room and they sat on the floor. Behind the desk sat the guiding officer, the interrogator, and another government agent sent by the higher authorities. The guiding officer ridiculed ...
Lu Hongen, conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, was the first high-profile intellectual to be publicly executed during the Cultural Revolution. The day after he was killed, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Public Security Bureau went to his wife and said: “You have to pay 20 cents; this is the cost of the bullet that ...