How Shen Yun tapped religious fervor to make $266 million
The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to ...
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This far-right publication ran over 17,000 articles 'fawning over' a Chinese dance group — here’s why
Hong and Rothfield add, "The strategy has emanated from the edicts of Falun Gong's founder, Li Hongzhi, whose followers run The Epoch Times and who oversees Shen Yun from his movement's guarded ...
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5 Takeaways From The Times’s Coverage of Shen Yun
The two-hour performance includes dance pieces that are intended to spread the message of Falun Gong and its living founder, Li Hongzhi, to a mass audience. But in a series of articles ...
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Shen Yun needed publicity. The Epoch Times wrote 17,000 articles.
“The Epoch Times has long been known to have ties to Falun Gong..but the outsize influence that [Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi] and his movement have exerted on the outlet’s coverage decisions — ...
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How Shen Yun Tapped Religious Fervor to Make $266 Million
But it also is a token of the power that Falun Gong’s founder, Li Hongzhi, has wielded over his followers. In the name of fighting communism, and obeying Mr. Li’s mystical teachings ...