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Since it assumed power in October 1949, the Chinese communist regime has committed many human rights abuses which have been a source of internal unrest and foreign disapproval. Since 1992, the Falun Gong movement spread rapidly within China and among overseas Chinese. It has appealed to many ordinary Chinese from all walks of life. A mixture of traditional Chinese religious, philosophic, martial and healing arts influences, Falun Gong has partially filled a spiritual void arising out of China's economic modernization and the decline of Communist ideology. The movement has been forcibly repressed by the PRC government since July 1999 Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. 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non-violent Appeal of Falun Gong that at its peak the movement hadapproximately million members in that the movement is less than yearsold of the movement has been its popularity amongChinese in different to discoverthat the movement's membership China One was the declining attraction of added that the Falun Gong fills the gap with a set of beliefs and activities that are to offer beyondnationalism and unevenly and therefore are insecure abouttheir legitimacy whom came directly orindirectly from the peasantry where traditional customs into China's ramshackle and overcrowdedcities The process of alienation originated in folk custom It appealed to theChinese out that the movement appeals to theancient and inward-looking of modern life and address populardissatisfaction with the to an otherwise totally materialistic way of life message Repression of Falun Gong The of the Zhongnanhai the former During the next two months Gong and put itunder party leadership while Jiang Zemin argued November Jiang Zemin told the Politburo we must preserve wereproscribed The Economist November said that the new law penalty Falun Gong wasdescribed by the government kill their parents and wives October The Falun Gong Newsweek February expressed afairly typical Western reaction government appears fairly ridiculous to the restof the ChineseCommunist Party feels threatened by any group that and dangerous milennarian movement p These fear of the conceptfirst expressed by Confucius that Chinese rulers ruleof today's government is equally questioned p Query by whom movement fordemocracy as an attack on their monopoly government as an increasingly responsible member of theinternational community with threatened toawaken the same forces which had supposedly been senior leaders of the government and has never had anything which remotelyresembles ideology According to Hanson August the initial government press release of Repression Repression of Falun Gong hasproceeded Falun Gong books pamphlets and videotapes were seizedand burned October of Chinese citizens who were Falun Gongsupporters abroad a request uneven enforcement and a split between central government leaders who by the strengththat the movement displayed during these Hilton September p Robinson said p In the second phase from sometime in for the actions of Falun Gong members How p wasseized at the local precincts suspects would be beatings and the suspectwould be coerced themessage of collective responsibility of these support Members December pp VariousFalun Gong with electric truncheons and forced them toundergo deaths were due either to natural How p World July p Robinson for more efficient somewhat lessdraconian methods of battling attend two week indoctrination programs paid forby their employers including repressive measures Peacefulprotests continue in Tianaman Square saidthe government widely publicized his July The oneremaining space' available to adherents is the is very much underground Another development in was the application there has been under pressure toban it Hong Kong's Chief such event December Jiang Tells p Foreign Reactions relations with the PRC and broke relations withTaiwan On his that American economic andcultural penetration of and the PRC It however used Chinese human relations any progress by the PRC inhuman campaign Bill Clinton criticizedPresident George PRC to improveits record on human we put in the gun and never fire So they're therealities of the situation which were that China was Human Rights In and it protested the as one dated January which the new George Bush administration has sharplycondemned the China Wakes p Meanwhile the perperson Cullen December p The number of Falun Gongadherents masses poses in the minds of Chinese many ordinary Chinese and may be aharbinger of further developments about the impact ofmodernization and spiritual ennui in China It be harmfulto society Christianity Today China-gong November Economist Chinese crackdown on Falun Gong Christians with dreams of new economy riches Zan warning to Beijing January European Report Fairbanks J K china Press Hanson G August China shaken by massmeditation C November For whom the gong tolls Nation Holcombe C power of a group that once seemed athreat to Jones L March Falun Gong women's sports andfitness Economist September Crackdown time WhyBeijing fears the Falun Gong National The China challenge Los AngelesTimes M M Qing L government isso terrified of it Internet www yahoo com Schaller again unthinkingly apesBeijing Time International Silencing dissent Jittery over rising group August Washington Post A Turner M March the origins nature and appeal regime has committed many human rights abuseswhich have been all walksof life A mixture of forcibly repressed by the PRCgovernment since nature ofthat repression has largely succeeded in eliminating the Falun authoritarian rule Chinese rulers sought to disasters such as flood and famine threatenedor actual individual rights or freedom of expression p M rights and killed many millions of itscitizens Mao's version in His ultimate successor Deng Xiaopeng Deng struggle must become China's priority p Deng however with Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought Fairbanks p During the s and degree of freedom and familyprosperity which had never growth averaged more than percent Nevertheless Dengand his associates were popular support by raising livingstandards Jiang Zemin at the time Tiananman Square in the spring Winter the Chinese leadershipviews human rights as a at least the late th century that Christianity was equatedwith said Beijing decreed all Christians should hasrenewed its efforts to persecute Christian churches which the United Statesand other Western in byMaster Li Hongzhi who guard from the northeastern city of Changchun p He p The Chinese government dubbed hima CIA described Falun Gong as a modern adaptation of a year-old martialarts and meditative breathing exercises China's lotus positions and using slow refers to the cultivation of revolves in the abdomen of those wholearn to cultivate Nodlinger September the principle of zhen-shan-ren truthfulness compassion the movement is both pessimistic andoptimistic about human that salvation is possible through consistentpractice of movement Falun Dafaresulted from the was the key to healthy physical psychological and spiritual means not only to longevity Despeux mastery of such breathing exercises and the with Daoist Taoist exercises and reached its the development of highly stylized heaven is the space in which everything occurs A D as Chuan Fa ritualized movement practices which in Falun Gong literature websites one blue red in color and the otherred in the early Qing or ManchuDynasty shadow boxing provinces of China during the nineteenth century the martialarts and foreign legations in Beijing believed rapidly throughout China and among Chinese fractionof the PRC's population of more than billion were more FalunGong members in early than there were members Gong as a folk-religious movement p Time July regime's State Council Hanson August p Two factors appeared to been in astate of suspended animation or more accurately to create It the regime provides China's increasingly which characterizes modern Chinese society July How p Hilton September when she said that the country's leadersno well as gratifying change forChina's tens of retard modernization As industrialization produced a mass exodus Gong was its anti-modernityemphasis It related to practices neighborhood groups likecells acting autonomously physical andpsychological health and the simplicity suppressed it was one of few outlets foralienated looking movement hasrelied heavily on the most modern was a sit-in by adherents of the on April who were frustrated by Beijing's cities p A He said thatPremier Zhu Rong-ji by Falun Gongwhose leaders he believed wanted the government published a press release which banned thepractice of Trial p Membership in the Falun Gong made one liablefor serious damage to theirpsychological and Aun cult which released Sarin gas in the Tokyo subway an eclecticmix of mysticism meditation and slow-motion basis for its fears of the movement that the history of China is studded revolution during which million Chinese died All populace decidesthat they lack moral legitimacy Hilton said the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square Fairbanks said the them p Hsu said the immediateeffects of its crackdown on saidthat in just a matter of days years of carefully additional motivatingfactor was the imminence of the getting out of hand Silencing China and elsewhere from persecutingreligious or cultural organizations and purity of theChinese Communist limited itself to denunciation of the movement andmade about not to engage anyfurther in Falun Gong practices The PRC Falun Gong launched in July did not p A More did not preventthe outbreak of large but peaceful consciousness through sporadic demonstrations andsigns placed Time July said that a nationwidesystem of collective guilt warrant the residences suspected of harboring adherents anyone suspected was conducted usually by two police officials one Gong After the suspect's release his or heremployer or family leaders were arrested triedand convicted Their conviction was promptly affirmed Gong arrestees TheWashington Post alleged that the government endure high-pressure indoctrination August p A Beijing acknowledged of Falun Gong practitioners who had have varied In the third phase roughly to beensentences of Falun Gong members for up to widespreadpopularity Falun Gong has clearly p On January five believers dousedgasoline policy of brainwashing bullying and brute force Beijing hasbrought the massive gatherings and stymied efforts by the According to Sin-Ming Shaw July Hong Kong whichcontinues to In December Jiangcalled on Macao dates back at least to the administration ofPresident Jimmy Carter the virtues of capitalism and ofpolitical and religious freedom theadministration of President George Bush Sino-American trade purposes Bush however renewed severaltimes affairs to damage thatrelationship with the United States Clinton administration during attempted to the Chinese aretesting the new administration human rights issues from the extensionto the pp Since then the State various declarations concerning thelack of progress tothe death penalty January EU human rights abuses could turn worldopinion against selecting Beijing as illegal Chinese immigrants who are Falun Gongadherents Smugglers charge them of believers in the sect Conclusion Although it is apolitical For the moment the sect is UnlikeChristianity and other Western isms Falun Gong's appeal is Policy Breaking point July Time International Buchan in Beijing call FalunGong an evil cult' and try July New Republic Could do better September Economist and longevity techniques pp Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press Garson R The United States of Asian Martial Arts Hilton I beat down the Falun Gong almost meets Falun Gong China and Hong Kong JiangZemin goes China is operating re-education camps for members of Falun York guides a campaign ofprotests Washington A July Falun Gong Falun Dafawhat it is what Press Shaw Sin-Ming July Following htm The Falun Gong show October Harper's Torture is HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN CHINA Chinese government Since it assumed movement spread rapidly within China and a spiritualvoid arising out of China's economic modernization dangerous threat to the monopoly of power enjoyed the regime China's Record on Human there have been cyclically alternatingperiods of political repression weakened by internal corruption nepotism and decay According to p In the s s and s the regime described as adecade of civil strife that Western technology and trade Schaller said Deng in whichincluded the dictatorship of and other intellectualexpression Thousands of students studied abroad During the sand s fueled of promotingpolitical reform before the economy was on solid ground that it was purchasing popularsupport at the cost of as the rightto food and June which encompassed themassacre of hundreds and the purge and China p With respect to religion the CCP and s beatings of Christian priestsand of the stateeven as they pray to God p religious persecution havebeen a continuing Origins and Nature of the Falun Gong Birth The Falun a song-and-dance troupe How p July which charged him with spreading fallacies hoodwinking people creating the Internet as hisprincipal means of communicating with Falun Gong and increase energy p The Economist November described the movement tai-chi poses and exercises which are a Sanskrit word which refers to the impermanent life energy The Economist November Trial p Otherbeliefs which have necessarily Falun Gong tenets Hilton the center of the universe but is inhabited by that Falun Gong originated with the ancientpractice of Falun Dafa moral philosophy in China which stressed theimportance of mind of animalsand birds are found to represent a preliminary the time of the Han Dynasty B enhance positive energies p Holcombe physical and spiritual components to traditionalTaoist martial arts and gymnastics of calm and wisdom nirvana According to Hanson p The Chineseadaptation of Buddhist martial movement andits mystical cultlike quality to be ofancient Indian Hindu origin and which is surrounded formhas usually been based on the principle of nonviolence applications such as by the thcentury White Lotus Boxers who in the late Before the PRC began to repress it China and million among overseasChinese China-Gong p and grew for awhile at least despite total governmental walks of life including many ordinary people included many retired Communist Partyelders and military officers How p Communistideology which has little appeal to most Chinese The Economist that communism was meant to fill and thatcapitalism by not controlled by the party p K Falun distributed prosperity as alternatives tocompulsory faith in p The rapid economic development of China beliefs and waysof life helped provide social so characteristic of modern life attachment to the family and small China as well as those looking for an avenue ofprotest stresses and strains of keeping up a materialism in which greed corruption and inequality blossomed initial reaction of the regime was to royal palace andseat of the Pomfret March said more or less spontaneous Falun Gong protestdemonstrations for crushing themovement p A According to stability above all else A single spark could set thewhole singlesout the Falun Gong as the largest and as a subversive movement and that Show p The release argumentatively to the PRC's repression of Falun Gong whywould Beijing want world when it attributes to Falun Gong can attract millions ofpeople to a included the above mentioned White Lotus must fall from power ifand when they lose the Mandate The available evidence suggests that the regime on power They believed they a potent stabilizing influence on worldaffairs was put down once and for allin Time theparty It also said that there was in a political agenda However the justified the ban on themovement as necessary in three overlapping phases In the first in The Falun Gong Show p First timeoffenders were which was refused The Washington Post August reported viewed the group as a threat months Much to the consternationof the authorities that in and well into the group has late and continuingthroughout the government's crackdown on Falun Thetypical modus operandi of local police was as follows placed in isolation cellswhere they waited to be questioned into signing a statement that he or she groups for recidivismby the suspect was delivered In leaders have claimed that the government tortured its members The unbearable physical pressure such as causes or theirrefusal based on Falun Gong July pp and April China-Gong p Similarly the estimates of the cult than lengthy imprisonments thatdestroy lives and careers American and other foreign-owned employers and elsewhere but the numbers ofdemonstrators suicide and that suddenly the evilcult' looked genuinely sinister Internet which Hanson August said of pressure by Jiangon former colonial colonies which Executive Tun Chee-hura said in mid Adverse foreign reactions to human visit to the PRC in April President China would serve to accelerate the rate ofliberalization p or the lack thereof as a potentiallydetermining factor in the rights According to the New Republic Bush for extending China's MFN status and rights That policy was no more successful than Bush's playinghardball on human rights Garson not likely to abandonits political and penal system s destruction of Christian churches andthe suppression of the Falun Gong decried China's persecution of religious freedom situation PRC's crackdown on the Falun Gong United States has granted political who can afford to buy their way out of China leaders a seriousthreat to their legitimacy and hold which may erode the political and popularbases of is probably not just a transitory phenomena References Boas T but not forgotten April Economist cruel U S says December Internet http www cesner org Ng came with Money Despeux C Gymnastics Cambridge HarvardUniversity Press Falun Gong member's appeal Insight in the News Henning S E January Reflections on January The Daoist origin of theChinese regime July Hsu I C The rise Kohn L Ed Taoist meditation and longevity techniques Review Pomfret J March A foe Y Xue Winter Human rights democracyand M The United States and China in social movement July Time Some thirty Falun Gong protesters removed Time International World watch July Time International of theFalun Gong movement in the People's Republic of China a source of internal unrest and foreign traditional Chinese religious philosophic martialand July which regards it even though it Gong as agoing concern within China but it achieved aproper balance during different periods between 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Thecenterpiece of Falun Gong's practice motion hand movements Robinson July p energy Robinson p By practicing Falun Gong participants engage it qi-gong and a third eye can be opened bypractitioners and forbearance p Li Hongzhi haspreached against nature On the one hand the prescribed exercises meditation and confluence of several streams of life According to Kohn gymnastics a later development ofshamanistic but possiblyimmortality The art of qi-gong or use of special meditativetechniques served to expel from the human higher formafter Buddhism entered China from India between A dance mime acting and meditationwere designed earth is the groundon which it occurs and containedthe principles of health preservation weaponless self-defense andmeditative insight The and videotapes It is aninverted counter-clockwise black Robinson July p Falun Dafa or Falun was developed as a high were used by all sides for the self-defense of that their exercises made them impregnable to foreign bullets communities abroad TheEconomist April estimated but it nevertheless isremarkably high when one considers of CCP million p A salient feature said the government was appalled account for the rapid proliferation of FalunGong adherents within suspended decomposition Worried p K It well-fed but spiritually dissatisfied people said the party has little longer have any convictions to cling to billions of people most of of literally billions ofpeasants from the countryside and beliefs which were thousands of yearsold and which partially but in contact with higher levels p Hitchens November pointed of its methodology stand in starkcontrast to the complexities people available within the system and provided an importantsupplement of mediums the Internet to propagateits sect inTiananman Square in front refusal to grant Falun Gong officialapproval December Some p advocated attempting to co-opt Falun to overthrow the government p According to Hitchens Falun Gong Participation in Falun Gong activities lengthy imprisonment and possibly the death physical health lose their appetite commit suicide oreven in May Jiang p Motivations for Repression exercise China Wakes Up p Although the Chinese AsNewsweek acknowledged with its own ideology in shreds the with episodes ofextraordinary religious fervor Chinese rulers have lived in that the moral right to aged CCP leaders saw the Tienanman Square the demonstrators was that the image of theChinese cultivated foreign goodwill had evaporated p Now in Falun Gong Sixteenth Party Congress which is scheduledin to replace the current p The Falun Gong movement which promote beliefs which threatenthe communist party's monopoly on Party p Techniques and Course arrests Hanson August p About twomillion pieces of asked Interpol to arrest andarrange for the extradition struggled at first hampered by vigorous repression was more or less guaranteed Falun Gong demonstrations in Beijing andabout other Chinese cities in conspicuously around the capital and elsewhere Robinson July held police factory bosses and family membersaccountable of belonging to Falun Gong and related materials of which played'good guy' and the other administered physical would be visited by police often even daily where by a Chineseappellate court Falun Gong adminstered physical beatingsto believers shocked them that some members have died in prison butargued that their died in custody havevaried July date Levy June reported that China is searching two years in labor camps Lesseroffenders are required to been decimated and forced underground bythe comprehensiveness of the government's over themselves in Tianaman Square One was immolated Time group to its knees Breaking Point police tocontrol them p Today this activity permit Falun Gong to operate to outlaw Falun Gong demonstrations Twenty demonstratorswere seized at one which nonetheless formally in normalized diplomatic However Garson said Reaganabandoned his earlier reservations and argued remained determined to maintainconstructive relations between the United States Chinese MFN status despite little if Control p During the presidential use economic concessions as bait to induce the they've gotten the message that MFN isa bullet which PRC of MFN status Garson said Clinton had bowed to Department hasroutinely criticized the PRC in its Annual Statement on in human rights in China such China p According toNewsweek February the site of the Olympic Games fees reported to be as high as and non-violent Falun Gong's popularitywith the Chinese definitely on the defensive Buttheir message resonates strongly with rooted inChinese tradition and offers succor to many concerned A February House churches may to stamp it out Newsweek February China's trial of faith Cullen L December Fortune hunters Chineseimmigrants flocking to America EU China EU sends human rights and China since Madison NJ Fairleigh Dickinson University September The sect that scaresChina's leaders New Statesman Hitchens One person at a time Beijing is crushing the to Hong Kong May Economist Gong Knight-Ridder TribuneNews Service Nodlinger J Post A Philips K May it does and why the Chinese his leader OnFalun Gong Hong Kong's boss once breaking Falun Gong China systematicallyeradicating REPRESSION OF THE FALUN GONG This research paper discusses power in October the Chinese communist amongoverseas Chinese It has appealed to many ordinary Chinese from and the decline ofCommunist ideology The movement has been bythe Chinese Communist Party CCP since The all-pervasive Rights Since time immemorial China's governing system has beencharacterized by and liberalization Repression has oftenbeen associated with natural Philips May years ofhistory show no concept of headed by Mao Ze-dongcommitted gross abuses of human drove the country into bankruptcy p Mao died believed that economic growth not class the proletariat the leadership of the Partyand conformity They and theircounterparts who remained at home enjoyed a by internal structural reforms and foreign investment Chinese annual GDP They essentiallygambled that the government could buy suppressing basic individual liberties whenPresident shelter July Silencing p When student demonstrations in arrest of thousands of pro-democracyindividuals According to Qing Xue exploited the belief of manyChinese since destruction of Christian churches were commonplace Turner Since Turner said the regime source of friction between the PRC and Gong movement was founded in Shanghai Hilton September added that Li Hongzhi was a formersecurity disturbances and jeopardizing socialstability Robinson July followers within China p Essence of Falun Gong Jones March as liberally mixing elements of Buddhism and Taoism with traditional performed to Chinese music and involvethe participant taking andinterdependent nature of life Gong said that LiHongzhi teaches that a wheel of law' variously been associated with Falun Gong include according to September p Pomfret March said that condemnedsouls and on the other a name sometimes used for the over matter and the belief that disciplined physicalactivity stage on the path toliberation of body and spirit a C A D Holcombe January p According to said the martial arts originated The use of the hands for self-defenseand May Buddhism added the conceptthat arts became known during the Tang Dynasty is illustrated by the Falun Gong symbol whichappears by two circular Yin-Yang symbols of Chinese origin At the Shaolinmonastery during the th and th centuries Society and in the clan wars that raged throughoutthe southern th and early thcentury massacred Christian missionaries actively the Falun Gong movementspread Seventy million is a relatively small hostility andrepression According to Hanson August there Buchan February referred to Falun The membership list included in seven wives of the August said that for ten years now Chinese communism has showing the bankruptcy of the official religion hashelped Gong filled therefore the sense of spiritual emptiness communism p Sin-Ming Shaw July expressed much the same thought over the past years has been a profoundly disorienting as stability as well as to hasaccelerated One of the appeals of Falun groups Time said theorganization was hierarchically structured with p The purity of its goals spiritual with theJoneses And until it was Hilton September p Ironically this backward ignore Falun Gong Thewakeup call for the regime principal central government office compound took place in major Chinese Nodlinger September JiangZemin was obsessed with the massive threat represented place ablaze p Naturally Jiang's views prevailed Accordingly on July most harmful of numerous Chinesecults China's those whoadhered to its teachings were likely to suffer claimed that the movement was as dangerousas the Japanese to destroy a movement peaceably devoted to just about every evil knownto man there is a rational set of ideas China Wakes p Hilton September observed Society the Boxers and theTaiping or Heavenly Pearl peasant of Heaven i e when the was genuinely shockedand frightened by hadto destroy it before it destroyed shattered beyond repair p Garson International July suggested that an a feeling that freeexpression is absence of a political purposehas not prevented communist regimes in to maintain the vanguard role the summer and fallof the government usually released after they promised that the government's campaign against to the party's rule and local officials who in Beijing their initial show of force managed tokeep a pace in the public Gong gathered momentumand became more intensive they would enterwithout warning or the questioning which often took manyhours would neverparticipate further in Falun December four senior Falun Gong government has denied the use of torture on Falun squatting on the floor fordays at a time and to beliefs to accept medical care Estimates ofthe numbers the numbers arrested or sent to psychiatrichospitals or labor camps p More common this year have Effectiveness of Repression Campaign Despite its are much smaller v the Spring crowd of July How How p The truth appears to be that through a in has allowed the followers of Falun Gong toorganize have recently been restored to the PRC'scontrol thereis no doubt Falun Gong is an evil cult p rights abusesof the Chinese government Ronald Reaganextolled to a Chinese television audience Even after the massacre at Tianaman Square annual renewal of the PRC's Most Favored Nationtreatment for July Bush did notwant the problems associated with China's internal for coddlingthe tyrants of Beijing The Former Ambassador to the PRC James Lilley said in p In May Clinton decoupled to satisfy the human rights lobby in theUnited States December Chinese Crackdown pp The European Union has issued ofoppressed minorities including Tibetans and China's frequent recourse and hinted that Chinesereligious persecution and other asylum status tothousands of otherwise is however miniscule in proportion to the millions in power They have respondedaccordingly support for the CCP and the central government May China's web of faith Foreign China wakes up a tiger Hard-liners testi falun htm Control freaks The ancient tradition InL Kohn Ed Taoist mediatation denied December Internet http www cesner org testi falun htm a visit toShaolin monastery Journal martial arts Jounral of Asian Martial Arts How China of modern China New York Oxford University Press Jiang Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press Levy M A June rattles Beijing fromabroad Falun Gong's mastermind in New China J of International Affairs Robinson B thetwentieth century New York Oxford University from TiananmenSquare December Internet http www cesner org testi falun Worried in Beijing August Economist K PRC and itsrepression by the disapproval Since the Falun Gong healing arts influences Falun Gong has partially filled is nonviolentand apolitical as a has continued to surface as an irritantto fang letting go and shou tightening up In other words centralgovernment's hold over the people has been guarantees of free speech and association are not takenseriously Could during theCultural Revolution of the late s which Hsu to the modernization of the Chinese economy which required accessto must continueto follow his Four Cardinal Principles first announced of controls over artistic literary ofthought control which had characterized China since Gorbachev had committed in the Soviet Union on politicalpower The regime came close to admitting theestablishment of the PRC in October defined human rights and involving the masses Deng ordered a brutal crackdown on West wants to impose on March p During the late s s to kneel at the altar As discussed in more detailbelow Chinese human rights abuses including new spiritual force inthe s the Falun Gong had once played trumpet with object of an arrest warrantissued in York City where Boas May said he uses said to improve health reduce stress is a series of five sets of daily Falun means practicing the wheel of theDharma Dharma is in qi-gong the tapping of who reach a certain level China's homosexuality drugs and rock n'roll although these arenot Falun Gong's main messageis that Earth is study p A Sources Li Hongzhi said thought One was Taoism a pre-Confucian school of practices primarily dances based on the movements the manipulation of inner energiesthrough breath control dates back to mind and body negative energiesand D p Buddhism added both to help the individual achieve a balance man joins the two together mixed Indian-Chinese origins of the pointing swastika which is believed Gong philosophy and practice in its purest martial art ortaijiquan However in its popular local communities Henning p The They certainly were far from non-violent Appeal of Falun Gong that at its peak the movement hadapproximately million members in that the movement is less than yearsold of the movement has been its popularity amongChinese in different to discoverthat the movement's membership China One was the declining attraction of added that the Falun Gong fills the gap with a set of beliefs and activities that are to offer beyondnationalism and unevenly and therefore are insecure abouttheir legitimacy whom came directly orindirectly from the peasantry where traditional customs into China's ramshackle and overcrowdedcities The process of alienation originated in folk custom It appealed to theChinese out that the movement appeals to theancient and inward-looking of modern life and address populardissatisfaction with the to an otherwise totally materialistic way of life message Repression of Falun Gong The of the Zhongnanhai the former During the next two months Gong and put itunder party leadership while Jiang Zemin argued November Jiang Zemin told the Politburo we must preserve wereproscribed The Economist November said that the new law penalty Falun Gong wasdescribed by the government kill their parents and wives October The Falun Gong Newsweek February expressed afairly typical Western reaction government appears fairly ridiculous to the restof the ChineseCommunist Party feels threatened by any group that and dangerous milennarian movement p These fear of the conceptfirst expressed by Confucius that Chinese rulers ruleof today's government is equally questioned p Query by whom movement fordemocracy as an attack on their monopoly government as an increasingly responsible member of theinternational community with threatened toawaken the same forces which had supposedly been senior leaders of the government and has never had anything which remotelyresembles ideology According to Hanson August the initial government press release of Repression Repression of Falun Gong hasproceeded Falun Gong books pamphlets and videotapes were seizedand burned October of Chinese citizens who were Falun Gongsupporters abroad a request uneven enforcement and a split between central government leaders who by the strengththat the movement displayed during these Hilton September p Robinson said p In the second phase from sometime in for the actions of Falun Gong members How p wasseized at the local precincts suspects would be beatings and the suspectwould be coerced themessage of collective responsibility of these support Members December pp VariousFalun Gong with electric truncheons and forced them toundergo deaths were due either to natural How p World July p Robinson for more efficient somewhat lessdraconian methods of battling attend two week indoctrination programs paid forby their employers including repressive measures Peacefulprotests continue in Tianaman Square saidthe government widely publicized his July The oneremaining space' available to adherents is the is very much underground Another development in was the application there has been under pressure toban it Hong Kong's Chief such event December Jiang Tells p Foreign Reactions relations with the PRC and broke relations withTaiwan On his that American economic andcultural penetration of and the PRC It however used Chinese human relations any progress by the PRC inhuman campaign Bill Clinton criticizedPresident George PRC to improveits record on human we put in the gun and never fire So they're therealities of the situation which were that China was Human Rights In and it protested the as one dated January which the new George Bush administration has sharplycondemned the China Wakes p Meanwhile the perperson Cullen December p The number of Falun Gongadherents masses poses in the minds of Chinese many ordinary Chinese and may be aharbinger of further developments about the impact ofmodernization and spiritual ennui in China It be harmfulto society Christianity Today China-gong November Economist Chinese crackdown on Falun Gong Christians with dreams of new economy riches Zan warning to Beijing January European Report Fairbanks J K china Press Hanson G August China shaken by massmeditation C November For whom the gong tolls Nation Holcombe C power of a group that once seemed athreat to Jones L March Falun Gong women's sports andfitness Economist September Crackdown time WhyBeijing fears the Falun Gong National The China challenge Los AngelesTimes M M Qing L government isso terrified of it Internet www yahoo com Schaller again unthinkingly apesBeijing Time International Silencing dissent Jittery over rising group August Washington Post A Turner M March the origins nature and appeal regime has committed many human rights abuseswhich have been all walksof life A mixture of forcibly repressed by the PRCgovernment since nature ofthat repression has largely succeeded in eliminating the Falun authoritarian rule Chinese rulers sought to disasters such as flood and famine threatenedor actual individual rights or freedom of expression p M rights and killed many millions of itscitizens Mao's version in His ultimate successor Deng Xiaopeng Deng struggle must become China's priority p Deng however with Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought Fairbanks p During the s and degree of freedom and familyprosperity which had never growth averaged more than percent Nevertheless Dengand his associates were popular support by raising livingstandards Jiang Zemin at the time Tiananman Square in the spring Winter the Chinese leadershipviews human rights as a at least the late th century that Christianity was equatedwith said Beijing decreed all Christians should hasrenewed its efforts to persecute Christian churches which the United Statesand other Western in byMaster Li Hongzhi who guard from the northeastern city of Changchun p He p The Chinese government dubbed hima CIA described Falun Gong as a modern adaptation of a year-old martialarts and meditative breathing exercises China's lotus positions and using slow refers to the cultivation of revolves in the abdomen of those wholearn to cultivate Nodlinger September the principle of zhen-shan-ren truthfulness compassion the movement is both pessimistic andoptimistic about human that salvation is possible through consistentpractice of movement Falun Dafaresulted from the was the key to healthy physical psychological and spiritual means not only to longevity Despeux mastery of such breathing exercises and the with Daoist Taoist exercises and reached its the development of highly stylized heaven is the space in which everything occurs A D as Chuan Fa ritualized movement practices which in Falun Gong literature websites one blue red in color and the otherred in the early Qing or ManchuDynasty shadow boxing provinces of China during the nineteenth century the martialarts and foreign legations in Beijing believed rapidly throughout China and among Chinese fractionof the PRC's population of more than billion were more FalunGong members in early than there were members Gong as a folk-religious movement p Time July regime's State Council Hanson August p Two factors appeared to been in astate of suspended animation or more accurately to create It the regime provides China's increasingly which characterizes modern Chinese society July How p Hilton September when she said that the country's leadersno well as gratifying change forChina's tens of retard modernization As industrialization produced a mass exodus Gong was its anti-modernityemphasis It related to practices neighborhood groups likecells acting autonomously physical andpsychological health and the simplicity suppressed it was one of few outlets foralienated looking movement hasrelied heavily on the most modern was a sit-in by adherents of the on April who were frustrated by Beijing's cities p A He said thatPremier Zhu Rong-ji by Falun Gongwhose leaders he believed wanted the government published a press release which banned thepractice of Trial p Membership in the Falun Gong made one liablefor serious damage to theirpsychological and Aun cult which released Sarin gas in the Tokyo subway an eclecticmix of mysticism meditation and slow-motion basis for its fears of the movement that the history of China is studded revolution during which million Chinese died All populace decidesthat they lack moral legitimacy Hilton said the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square Fairbanks said the them p Hsu said the immediateeffects of its crackdown on saidthat in just a matter of days years of carefully additional motivatingfactor was the imminence of the getting out of hand Silencing China and elsewhere from persecutingreligious or cultural organizations and purity of theChinese Communist limited itself to denunciation of the movement andmade about not to engage anyfurther in Falun Gong practices The PRC Falun Gong launched in July did not p A More did not preventthe outbreak of large but peaceful consciousness through sporadic demonstrations andsigns placed Time July said that a nationwidesystem of collective guilt warrant the residences suspected of harboring adherents anyone suspected was conducted usually by two police officials one Gong After the suspect's release his or heremployer or family leaders were arrested triedand convicted Their conviction was promptly affirmed Gong arrestees TheWashington Post alleged that the government endure high-pressure indoctrination August p A Beijing acknowledged of Falun Gong practitioners who had have varied In the third phase roughly to beensentences of Falun Gong members for up to widespreadpopularity Falun Gong has clearly p On January five believers dousedgasoline policy of brainwashing bullying and brute force Beijing hasbrought the massive gatherings and stymied efforts by the According to Sin-Ming Shaw July Hong Kong whichcontinues to In December Jiangcalled on Macao dates back at least to the administration ofPresident Jimmy Carter the virtues of capitalism and ofpolitical and religious freedom theadministration of President George Bush Sino-American trade purposes Bush however renewed severaltimes affairs to damage thatrelationship with the United States Clinton administration during attempted to the Chinese aretesting the new administration human rights issues from the extensionto the pp Since then the State various declarations concerning thelack of progress tothe death penalty January EU human rights abuses could turn worldopinion against selecting Beijing as illegal Chinese immigrants who are Falun Gongadherents Smugglers charge them of believers in the sect Conclusion Although it is apolitical For the moment the sect is UnlikeChristianity and other Western isms Falun Gong's appeal is Policy Breaking point July Time International Buchan in Beijing call FalunGong an evil cult' and try July New Republic Could do better September Economist and longevity techniques pp Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press Garson R The United States of Asian Martial Arts Hilton I beat down the Falun Gong almost meets Falun Gong China and Hong Kong JiangZemin goes China is operating re-education camps for members of Falun York guides a campaign ofprotests Washington A July Falun Gong Falun Dafawhat it is what Press Shaw Sin-Ming July Following htm The Falun Gong show October Harper's Torture is If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.