In August of 2024, the New York Times published a series of stories alleging abuse within Shen Yun Performing Arts. But both former and current Shen Yun artists are saying they’ve been misrepresented. So what’s the real story? For the first time tonight, you’re going to hear from the people that have been most affected. […]
Recent articles by The New York Times attacking Shen Yun Performing Arts, an arts group run by Chinese dissidents, are flawed to the point of requiring retraction, according to a recent report. The paper’s longest article, at 5,000 words, “overtly employs the basic tools of a propaganda hit piece,” including “emotionally manipulative language and imagery,” […]
Following the recent New York Times articles attacking Shen Yun Performing Arts, several well-known Chinese expat journalists who reside in the United States publicly refuted the NY Times’s accusations. They told The Epoch Times the report was full of logical fallacies and criticized its siding with the Chinese communist regime. NY Times accused Shen Yun—a […]
The New York Times in a lengthy article published on Aug. 15 attacked Shen Yun Performing Arts, one of the world’s premiere dance and music companies, using misrepresentation, omission of key information, and questionable journalistic practices. The authors, New York Times reporters Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld, ignored large amounts of information that contradicted the […]
Shen Yun Performing Arts says recent media reporting about it is “riddled with gross distortion” and aids Beijing’s global campaign to malign the arts company, which was founded by first generation immigrants and artists fleeing persecution in China. Headquartered in upstate New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 with a mission to revive traditional […]
At critical moments over the past 25 years, The New York Times has aided the interests of a power faction within the Chinese Communist Party responsible for atrocities against practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. On top of implicating itself ethically, the paper has also, as a result, distorted its China coverage and misled […]
The State Department has placed the limelight on Beijing’s persistent efforts to censor Shen Yun Performing Arts, a New York-based arts group that tours the world to present traditional Chinese culture while drawing attention to ongoing human rights abuses in China. The department’s annual religious freedom report, released on June 26, documents the Chinese Communist […]
Shen Yun Performing Arts concluded its highly successful 2024 global tour with a final show in Stamford, Connecticut, on May 12. From December 2023 to May 2024, the classical Chinese dance company’s eight equally sized companies, each accompanied by a live orchestra, journeyed across five continents to share the beauty of authentic Chinese culture with […]
WASHINGTON—An escalating Chinese campaign aimed at silencing a U.S. arts group was brought up at an April 17 hearing on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) political warfare against the United States. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) raised the alarm over several recent fake bomb threats targeting New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts, whose slogan, “China […]
Representatives of a nonprofit group in the Chicago metropolitan area are demanding an investigation into a U.S. customs officer who allegedly used Chinese communist hate propaganda in his official capacity against artists from New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts. Yi Liu and Andrew Tu, president and vice president of the Mid-USA Falun Dafa Association, submitted […]
The New York Times has been preparing a hit piece against Shen Yun Performing Arts, The Epoch Times has learned. New York-based Shen Yun travels the world with a mission: to revive traditional Chinese culture through the medium of dance and music. It also seeks to shine a light on human rights abuses happening in […]
The New York Times has ignored, downplayed, or misrepresented large swaths of human rights abuses in China, a new report says, arguing the paper’s sins against journalistic integrity have likely cost lives by skewing policy debate and propping up the regime’s dehumanizing propaganda. “Not only are the victims’ plights typically treated with silence and indifference, […]
CHICAGO—U.S. lawmakers are raising concerns and calling for an investigation into a U.S. customs officer who used Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hate propaganda in his official capacity against artists belonging to the New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts. “Espousing Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and coercion and intimidation as an official U.S. government action—that’s exceptional,” Rep. […]
A U.S. customs officer at a Chicago airport targeted the U.S.-based Shen Yun Performing Arts company with Chinese Communist Party propaganda. The incident is now leading to calls for a thorough investigation into Chinese infiltration into the U.S. government. On Monday at the O’Hare International Airport, performers of Shen Yun were coming back from a […]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has for over a decade been trying to prevent people from seeing dance and music performances put up by a New York-based performing arts company. Despite challenges posed by the communist regime, Shen Yun Performing Arts has grown from one company to eight equal-size companies. Last month, it kicked off […]
NTD Television Network will broadcast a Christmas special featuring performances by the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra on the NTD East, NTD West, and NTD UK channels. The special includes the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, the 2019 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra Concert, and the 2018 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra Concert. The programs will air from Dec. […]
As the Christmas holidays approach, New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts is gearing up to launch its 2024 touring season. The first performance will kick off on Dec. 22 in Nagoya, Japan. Returning this year with an all-new set of programs, Shen Yun’s eight equally sized companies—each with a live orchestra—are set to tour around […]
Several Congress members on the House Foreign Affairs Committee have conveyed concerns over the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) influence in South Korea after Beijing successfully pressured theaters in the nation to refuse to host a New York-based performing arts group. Shen Yun Performing Arts is dedicated to bringing back the beauty of authentic Chinese culture […]
In a new special report on NTD, Capitol Report host Steve Lance went to investigate how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) stopped an American performing arts company from playing in South Korea. New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts seeks to revive traditional Chinese Culture. But the company has been banned from performing in China by Beijing […]
Shen Yun Zuo Pin (Shen Yun Creations), the official streaming platform of Shen Yun Performing Arts, recently launched an audio streaming section, making their orchestral recordings available online. It was welcome news for many fans: Shen Yun’s music is so popular that recordings of the performance soundtracks were made in response to high demand, and […]
