• March 1, 2020   "Beyond the Coronavirus" with Dr. Shizhong Chen

• February 23, 2020   "Coronavirus and Chinese Censorship" with Jun and Dr. Wen Chen

• January 26, 2020   "China, the Falun Gong and Forced Organ Harvesting" - Mitchell Nicholas Gerber

• December 8, 2019  "Another Perspective from China to Freedom" with Eureka Young

• December 1, 2019 "Inside the Issues with Hong Kong" with Dr. Shizhong Chen and Eureka Young

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• October 13, 2019 "Why Americans Aren't Told the Truth About China" - Dr. Shizhong Chen

• September 29, 2019 "My Journey from China to Freedom Part 2" - Dr. Shizhong Chen

• September 22, 2019 My Journey from China to Freedom Part 1" - Dr. Shizhong Chen

• July 28, 2019   "Can Chinafornia Ever Be California Again  Part 2?" with Dr. Shizhong Chen

• July 21, 2019   "Can Chinafornia Ever Be California Again  Part 1?" with Dr. Shizhong Chen

• March 10, 2019   "Hard Drive: A Family's Fight Against Three Countries" with Mary Todd, mother of Shane Truman Todd who was murdered in Singapore

• December 2, 2018   "A Journey from Communism and Forced Organ Harvesting in China Part 2" with Dr. Wen Chen and our previous guest, Jun

• November 18, 2018   Hour 1: "A Journey from Communism and the Dangerous Trends in America Today" with former Communist, Jun  Hour 2: "Forced Organ Harvesting in China" with Epoch Times Reporter, Nan Su

SHEN YUN is awakening people everywhere to the beauty of Chinese culture that is overshaddowed by the brutal communist regime.  Click the picture below for more information and performance times/locations:

Falun Gong (UK: /ˌfɑːlʊn ˈɡɒŋ, ˌfæl-, - ˈɡʊŋ/, US: /- ˈɡɔːŋ/)^[1] or Falun Dafa (/ˈdɑːfə/; Standard Mandarin Chinese: [fàlwə̌n tâfà]; literally, "Dharma Wheel Practice" or "Law Wheel Practice") is a Chinese religious spiritual practice that combines meditation and qigong exercises with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance (Chinese: 真、善、忍). The practice emphasizes morality and the cultivation of virtue, and identifies as a qigong practice of the Buddhist school, though its teachings also incorporate elements drawn from Taoist traditions. Through moral rectitude and the practice of meditation, practitioners of Falun Gong aspire to eliminate attachments, and ultimately to achieve spiritual enlightenment.

Falun Gong
The Falun Dafa emblem
Traditional Chinese	法輪功
Simplified Chinese	法轮功
Literal meaning	Dharma Wheel Practice or Dharma Wheel Work/Power/Energy
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fǎlún Gōng Wade–Giles Falun-Kung IPA [fàlwə̌n kʊ́ŋ] Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ Fap-lùn-kûng Yue: Cantonese IPA [faːt lɵn kʊ́ŋ] Jyutping faat3 leon4 gung1 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Hoat-lûn-kong Eastern Min Fuzhou BUC Huák-lùng-gŭng
Falun Dafa
Traditional Chinese	法輪大法
Simplified Chinese	法轮大法
Literal meaning	Great Dharma Wheel Practice
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fǎlún Dàfǎ Wade–Giles Falun Tafa Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ fap-lùn-thai-fap Yue: Cantonese Jyutping faat3 leon4 daai6 faat3 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Hoat-lûn-tāi-hoat Eastern Min Fuzhou BUC huák-lùng-dâi-huák

Falun Gong originated and was first taught publicly in northeastern China in 1992 by Li Hongzhi. It emerged toward the end of China's "qigong boom"—a period that saw a proliferation of similar practices of meditation, slow-moving energy exercises and regulated breathing. It differs from other qigong schools in its absence of fees or formal membership, lack of daily rituals of worship, its greater emphasis on morality, and the theological nature of its teachings. Western academics have described Falun Gong as a qigong discipline, a "spiritual movement", a "cultivation system" in the tradition of Chinese antiquity, or as a form of Chinese religion.

The practice initially enjoyed support from Chinese officialdom, but by the mid to late 1990s, the Communist Party and public security organizations increasingly viewed Falun Gong as a potential threat due to its size, independence from the state, and spiritual teachings. By 1999, government estimates placed the number of Falun Gong practitioners at 70 million.^[2] During that time, negative coverage of Falun Gong began to appear in the state-run press, and practitioners usually responded by picketing the source involved. Most of the time, the practitioners succeeded, but controversy and tension continued to build. The scale of protests grew until April 1999, when over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered near the central government compound in Beijing to request legal recognition and freedom from state interference. This demonstration is widely seen as catalyzing the persecution that followed.

On 20 July 1999, the Communist Party leadership initiated a nationwide crackdown and multifaceted propaganda campaign intended to eradicate the practice. It blocked Internet access to websites that mention Falun Gong, and in October 1999 it declared Falun Gong a "heretical organization" that threatened social stability. Falun Gong practitioners in China are reportedly subject to a wide range of human rights abuses: hundreds of thousands are estimated to have been imprisoned extrajudicially,^[3] and practitioners in detention are subject to forced labor, psychiatric abuse, torture, and other coercive methods of thought reform at the hands of Chinese authorities.^[4] As of 2009, human rights groups estimated that at least 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners had died as a result of abuse in custody.^[5] One observer reported that tens of thousands may have been killed to supply China's organ transplant industry (see Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China).^[6][7] In the years since the persecution began, Falun Gong practitioners have become active in advocating for greater human rights in China.

Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi has lived in New York City since 1996, and Falun Gong has a sizable global constituency. Inside China, estimates suggest that tens of millions continued to practice Falun Gong in spite of the persecution.^[8][9][10] Hundreds of thousands are estimated to practice Falun Gong outside China in over 70 countries worldwide.