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The Curtain Rises on a Farce in China

After spending eight years trying to silence Shen Yun Performing Arts and 60 years trying to destroy China’s traditional culture, the Chinese Communist Party suddenly wants to convince the people of China it can offer a performance like Shen Yun’s evocation of China’s divinely inspired, traditional culture. No clearer sign of the Party’s desperation exists than this attempt to imitate what the CCP has always sought to destroy.
The Curtain Rises on a Farce in China
Shen Yun Performing Arts at The David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, on Jan 7, 2011. Shen Yun's popular performances of classical Chinese dance have caught the attention of propagandists in Beijing, who want to imitate them. Dai Bing/The Epoch Times
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Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) begins imitating the New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts, though, sincerity and flattery are not part of the program.

Ever since Shen Yun’s first show of classical Chinese dance and music in 2006 in New York, People’s Republic of China officials have tried to sabotage the company’s performances.

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