An anthropologist who conducted fieldwork among Falun Gong practitioners explains the movement’s beliefs and why its followers continue to resist the Chinese government.
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Shen Yun is one of Falun Gong’s culture outreach organisations. It markets its dance performances as a revival of ‘traditional Chinese culture’.
Comparisons have been made to the 1989 demonstrations that led to the Tiananmen Square massacre. An expert on Chinese protests explains why that is half right.
China’s industrial-scale organ trafficking practice has been executing prisoners of conscience and using their organs for transplantation for decades. This is known as forced organ harvesting.
It will take a global effort to slow the rise in
atrocities against religious groups.
When a Canadian travels to China to receive an organ transplant, a member of a persecuted minority may be killed to provide the organ.
The author of the controversial Silent Invasion argues it’s not the book, but the reaction to it, that has highlighted something troubling in Australian intellectual life.
The international community should demand a full accounting of the real sources of organs in China before believing any more claims about reform.
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