ShortHand: Shen Yun: The World’s Most Entertaining Cult
5/12/202627 min
Critically lauded dance troupe, or sinister, human-trafficking, brainwashing, child-abusing cult? However you slice it, there is a lot more going on to Shen Yun than the glitzy public posters let on.
This week we open the curtain on Shen Yun, and the cult behind it, Falun Gong – whose founder Li Hongzhi believes he can levitate, predict the future and read his followers’ minds. So: what does Falun Gong want to achieve? What do we make of their claims of torture, at the hands of the Chinese government? And HOW exactly how do they sell out shows of traditional Chinese dancing in every major city across the world?
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Suruthi Bala· Host1:14
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Shorthanded, where we're gonna talk about something that I just randomly say to people now- Mm-hmm ... and then I want to watch their response to it. [laughs] Because if you live anywhere but under a rock- Wish I