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Article: FALUN GONG SPIRITUALITY, SCIENCE THREATEN CHINA.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 16, 2001
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China's Liberation Army Daily recently condemned the Falun Gong movement and its leader, Li Hongzhi, as "Western anti-Chinese forces" - a new wrinkle in a government campaign to group Falun Gong with the Branch Davidians and Aum Shinrikyo as apocalyptic doomsday cults, and which began by dismissing the spiritual movement as a trick played on the superstitious and the illiterate.
Most Chinese Falun Gong practitioners I have met in North America, however, are youngish and highly educated - most often in the hard sciences - and feel that their practice of Falun Gong has reacquainted them with aspects of Chinese cultural tradition that had been ignored since the ...