including "long hours for little pay," and aims to financially support Falun Gong leader Li Hongzhi. "Shen Yun touts itself as a nonprofit dance company devoted to highlighting traditional Chinese ...

Yun Li, 37, was inside the dice joint on Haight Street near 41st Avenue – just blocks from his Flushing home – around 9:20 p.m. Dec. 19 when he was shot in the head during the botched drug ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...