Falun Gong: The End of Days
by Maria Hsia Chang
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Author: Maria Hsia ChangEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-10
ISBN: 0300102275
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Book Review: The real truth on Falung Gong vs. China
Summary: 5 Stars
It is very hard, almost impossible, getting real, independent views and insights on Falun Gong and China. This book does just that, to my very delight.
Falun Gong lies, has propoganda media outlets (NTDTV, EPoch Times). China lies, has propoganda outlets (all Chinese news).
Both have some truth, both like to lie. Why, I never understood, why Falun Gong fights propoganda with their own...examples are of having those Media outlets, yet never admitting that they are just that..falun gong owned/operated. On NTDTV they have reports each day on how many people have left the chinese communist part...which interesting is like 25,938 each day. Yes, I am sure that's accurate. (sarcasim alert)
The book gives real information on Falun Gong, it's crazy beliefs, Li Hongzhi (founder of falung gong and a psycho guy who thinks he's there are aliens amount us) as well as chronicling china's crackdown of falun gong and reasons why.
The only short coming of the book I can find is that it doesn't give much history on Falun Gong prior to 1998 or so...why did Falun Gong become so big? Strange, it seems, with such strange beliefs...there are suggestions why QiGong has become popular but not this one in particular.
Either way, this i sa very well written, idependent analysis of the situation.
Summary of Falun Gong: The End of Days
The world first took notice of a religious group called Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, when more than 10,000 of its followers protested before the Chinese Communist headquarters in Beijing. Falun Gong investigates events in the wake of the demonstration: Beijing's condemnation of the group as a Western, anti-Chinese force and doomsday cult, the sect's continued defiance, and the nationwide campaign that resulted in the incarceration and torture of many Falun Gong faithful. Maria Hsia Chang discusses the Falun Gong's beliefs, including their ideas on cosmology, humanity's origin, karma, reincarnation, UFOs, and the coming apocalypse. She balances an account of the Chinese government's case against the sect with an evaluation of the credibility of those accusations. Describing China's long history of secret societies that initiated powerful uprisings and sometimes overthrew dynasties, she explains the Chinese government's brutal treatment of the sect. And she concludes with a chronicle of the ongoing persecution of religious groups in China-of which Falun Gong is only one of many-and the social conditions that breed the popular discontent and alienation that spawn religious millenarianism.Relations Books
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