The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work for free and pay its bills. By Michael Rothfeld and Nicole Hong The ...

The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York and specifically sues Shen Yun, Li Hongzhi and other defendants ...

The New York Times Against that backdrop, Mr. Li’s movement has put Shen Yun forward as a propaganda tool of its own, amplifying the show’s anti-Communist message through a network of ...

Mr. Li, who is in his early 70s, helped create Shen Yun in 2006. He and other lieutenants oversee the group’s training inside a secluded 400-acre compound known as Dragon Springs in ...

Li Hongzhi, and portraying the Chinese government, which has banned and persecuted his followers, as evil. Shen Yun accumulated $266 million in assets by 2023, the lawsuit says, while performers ...

So, in part, to draw global attention to the persecution and to continue to spread the religion, Li and his followers have this idea to put on a traveling show. And that’s how in 2006, Shen Yun ...

The show shares the teachings of Falun Gong’s founder, Hongzhi Li, and warns about the cruelty of China’s Communist party. As a result, leaders in Shen Yun say the group has been persecuted by ...