Shortly after the launch of Shen Yun Performing Arts, halfway across the world, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials believed they had the perfect plan to drive the American arts group out of business: They would flood the market with dozens of competing groups—60, to be precise—and that would be the end of it. After all, who wouldn’t want to see a Chinese performance that was officially state-backed over one put on by a bunch of New York-based dissidents trying to revive “5,000 years of Chinese civilization”?
Very few people, it turns out.
