In a March 19 letter to Shen Yun’s local presenter, mayor of Lima’s Jesus Maria district Jorge Luis Quintana Garcia Godos said that “it is truly an honor to have Shen Yun, that through dance and music revives 5.000 years of Chinese civilization.” Other serving and elected officials who extended greetings to Shen Yun include Peruvian congressman Justiniano Romulo Apaza Ordonez and former congressman Wuilian Alfonso Monterola Abregu.
Shen Yun will perform at the Grand National Theater, called Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú in Spanish, on Feb. 8 and Feb. 9, 2020. In January, the company will also perform in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Mei Jiang, Shen Yun’s presenter in Peru, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on Dec. 19 that nearly 50 percent of the tickets had been bought since sales began on Nov. 11.
Among Shen Yun’s local sponsors are Peruvian mainstream newspaper Comercio, magazine Cosas, TV Channel Canal N, cultural radio station Filarmonía, and Interbank, one of the largest financial institutions in Peru.
‘Chinese Book Room’ Becomes a Platform for Hate
The Chinese regime has long attempted to undermine Shen Yun, using methods that range from applying economic pressure on local theaters and spreading disinformation about the company, to physical sabotage of Shen Yun performers’ vehicles.On Dec. 12, the People’s Republic of China Embassy in Lima held an opening ceremony for the “Chinese Book Room” that it sponsored at the Great Public Library of Lima.
At the event, He Yong, the PRC embassy’s cultural advisor, gave a speech in which he asked the audience to boycott Shen Yun.
“Shen Yun is a show to spread demagogic theories and defame the Chinese government,” He said in a video taken during the speech and provided to The Epoch Times by a Peruvian reader.
Recent reporting by The Epoch Times has shown that in addition to Chinese regime pressure governments and theaters against hosting Shen Yun, Google search results direct users to articles that carry the CCP’s disinformation on the show.
In searches of Shen Yun-related terms on the platform, the regime’s propaganda is placed even higher in the results than the company’s official pages. In contrast, other search engines did not yield such results.
