I wonder who is the real anti-chinese culture or anti-China here?
.....The CCP, of course! CCP is the one who destroys Chinese traditional culture!
Read - On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/4-12-20/25087.html
Sadly, most Chinese are still deceived by CCP's lies.....
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Chinese consulate sends letter to discourage support from Seattle council member
By Stephen Gregory
Epoch Times Staff
Shen Yun Performing Arts has begun its 2012 season with full houses and sold-out shows in cities throughout America. Along with its success has come some unwanted interference. Due to its mission to revive the 5,000 year old, divinely inspired culture of China, Shen Yun has become a target of the Chinese regime.
Over the past 60 years, atheism has been forced upon China by the Chinese Communist Party, and decades of campaigns, particularly the Cultural Revolution, have been carried out to eradicate every vestige of traditional culture, says Shen Yun’s website.
Chinese consular officials continue to attempt to thwart the performances and success of Shen Yun around the world. This time government officials in Seattle have been targeted. In a letter dated Jan. 18 Gao Zhangshang, the Chinese Consul-General in San Francisco, asked a Seattle City Council member not to provide a proclamation or letter of support for Shen Yun, not to attend the performance, nor give interviews to media about Shen Yun. The name of the council member who provided the letter is being withheld at the member’s request. (View the letter below)
In writing such letters, the Chinese regime representatives’ actions reflect a “deep-seated fear, paranoia, and sense of inferiority,” says George Mason University’s Professor Zhang Tianliang, in a 2010 article published in The Epoch Times.
“What the regime fears most is that Shen Yun, which has swept across Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia, will eventually clear the clouds of deceit spread by the communist regime, and the vulgarity and ugliness of the Communist Party culture will only become more apparent.”
Shen Yun is scheduled to perform in Seattle’s Marion Oliver McGraw Hall on Feb. 7 and 8.
Since Shen Yun first began performing in 2006, the Chinese regime has sought to interfere. On a blog titled “Who’s Afraid of Shen Yun?” Leeshai Lemish, an emcee for the performance, has documented 46 cases of interference in 20 countries that have taken place since 2008. The incidents run the gamut from the slashing of bus tires in Ottawa to the threat to withhold loans promised by the Chinese regime to the Moldovan government.
Lemish believes that the Chinese regime seeks to block the performance because Shen Yun typically includes one or two acts that depict the persecution of Falun Gong in modern-day China.
“PRC ‘diplomats’ have been engaging in covert action in North America, Europe, Australia, and, really, wherever they are found, to try to sabotage any activity that exposes persecution in China,” writes Lemish.
The Seattle Falun Dafa Association is bringing Shen Yun to Seattle. The association’s president, Ms. Zhiping Kolouch, Ph.D., agrees with Lemish.
“The performance tells the truth about what happens in China—that you can’t follow your own spiritual path,” said Kolouch. “Right at this moment you have millions of people in China who stand to lose everything they have because of their beliefs.”
It is outside of China that Shen Yun’s artistic creators have the ability to freely express themselves and their ancient culture. Their courage to speak up is an integral part of Shen Yun’s spirit, the company’s website says.
The Consulate-General’s letter begins by stressing “friendship” and “bilateral cooperation” with the Seattle council member. The letter continues by complaining that the Shen Yun show in Seattle is presented by Falun Gong, and goes on to repeat stock propaganda phrases the Chinese regime has used to attack Falun Gong in and out of China for many years.
That propaganda has long been discredited by human rights groups. Human Rights Watch in 2000 wrote, “Falun Gong members are peaceful, law-abiding citizens, and there is no excuse for the human rights violations they have endured.”
Amnesty International, also in 2000, wrote, “the crackdown is politically motivated.”
An NGO, the United Nations International Education Development, declared in a testimony before the U.N. Human Rights Commission in August 2001 that an incident of self-immolation that the Chinese regime used to claim Falun Gong was an “evil cult” was in fact staged by the Chinese regime itself.
Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, involves five sets of meditative exercises and following moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
In 1999 then-CCP President Jiang Zemin feared that too many people were following beliefs outside of CCP doctrine and control. According to Chinese state estimates in early 1999, about 100 million people were practicing Falun Gong. In July 1999 he ordered a campaign to “eradicate” the practice.
Kolouch said that Chinese consulate officials have sent letters similar to the one in Seattle to government officials in other cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She is not concerned the letter will damage either Shen Yun or Falun Gong.
“They are trying to destroy us and they just help us by doing more advertising,” Kolouch said.
Previous examples bear her out. Lemish’s blog points out a recent case in which the efforts by Chinese Consular officials to shut down a January 2011 performance in Busan, Korea, caused such a media frenzy that it easily sold out.
Kolouch says Seattle ticket sales are going well.
“Shen Yun, in the last few weeks sold out several performances in Lincoln Center in New York, and also sold out shows in Los Angeles and in San Francisco,” Kolouch said. “The Seattle performance will do very well.”
“The American people realize Shen Yun is a very beautiful thing that uplifts people’s spirit and gives them a good education about China’s authentic, traditional culture.”
From - http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/shen-yun-s-display-of-traditional-chinese-culture-scares-chinese-regime-181742.html
