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Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or ‘Evil Cult’? (revised). By Danny Schechter. [New York: Akashic Books, 2001. 287 pp. $15.95. ISBN 1-888451-27-0.]
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Investigative journalist and human rights activist, Danny Schechter, has produced a sympathetic portrait of falun gong and its enigmatic founder, Li Hongzhi, “in the hope that it will encourage more interest and support for falun gong's right to exist and to practise its beliefs openly” (p. 1). The first part of the reader involves a report on the persecution of falun gong practitioners inside mainland China, and castigates the press for its inadequate coverage of the crackdown.
Title: Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or ‘Evil Cult’? (revised). By Danny Schechter. [New York: Akashic Books, 2001. 287 pp. $15.95. ISBN 1-888451-27-0.]
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Investigative journalist and human rights activist, Danny Schechter, has produced a sympathetic portrait of falun gong and its enigmatic founder, Li Hongzhi, “in the hope that it will encourage more interest and support for falun gong's right to exist and to practise its beliefs openly” (p.
1).
The first part of the reader involves a report on the persecution of falun gong practitioners inside mainland China, and castigates the press for its inadequate coverage of the crackdown.
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