Now 20 years old, Shen Yun has launched itself on a mission to revive the ancient culture that was "almost lost" during China's devastating Cultural Revolution since the 1960s.

Shen Yun, which is based in New York, not China, says it's on a mission to share with the world "China before communism," as China's traditional culture was "almost lost" during the destructive Cultural Revolution under communism in the 1960s.

Shen Yun was first launched by followers of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Dafa in 2006 and has since toured around the world in an effort to “revive 5,000 years of civilization” nearly destroyed by the Chinese communist regime’s Cultural Revolution

The company’s mission is to revive and share with the world China's traditional, divinely inspired culture, which was nearly all but lost during the Cultural Revolution in that country from 1966 to 1976.

“First, you had the Cultural Revolution, which was a war on ancestors. Then you had the one-child policy, which is a war on your own descendants. Now you have organ harvesting, which is cannibalism,” he stated. “The CCP will collapse.

Soviet bread lines, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and the Cambodian killing fields are not lived memories but instead historical chapters competing for attention in an age dominated by social media and 20-second video clips.

“Through campaigns like the Cultural Revolution, it has systematically uprooted traditional beliefs and destroyed ancient treasures, bringing 5,000 years of civilization to the brink of extinction.” Ms. Powers finds this mission fabulous.

Through campaigns like the Cultural Revolution, it has systematically uprooted traditional beliefs and destroyed ancient treasures, bringing 5,000 years of civilization to the brink of extinction,” states Shen Yun's website.

General Chen’s trauma—witnessing her father’s death during the Cultural Revolution—may explain why she could not choose a different path, as Sophie eventually does. Her past becomes a chain she cannot break.

The company’s website states that they have a mission to revive traditional Chinese culture that was “almost lost” in the destructive throes of China’s cultural revolution.

Combined with recent state security narratives portraying ‘lying flat’ as influenced by foreign forces, this trend is reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution.”

Reflecting on China’s cultural revolution in the 1960s, which pushed traditional Chinese culture to the brink of extinction, Mr. Migares remarked, “It’s really foolish because you cannot get rid of it. It doesn't make any sense.”

Shen Yun was first launched by followers of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Dafa in 2006 and has since toured around the world in an effort to “revive 5,000 years of civilization” nearly destroyed by the Chinese communist regime’s Cultural Revolution

This effort included the decade-long Cultural Revolution launched by then-Chinese leader Mao Zedong, which targeted the “Four Olds”: old customs, culture, habits, and ideas.

China was once known as the land of the divine but after the Cultural Revolution, tradition and customs were systematically destroyed and distorted. The Chinese Communist Party stifled self-expression and other basic human rights.

When the Cultural Revolution pushed China to the brink of economic collapse in the 1970s, the United States stepped in—not with a containment strategy but by normalizing relations with Beijing.

Now in its 20th year, Shen Yun was founded to revive a culture that was "almost lost" during China's destructive Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Much as the theater Mr.

The performance “hearkens back to before the Cultural Revolution, so they get to have their culture, their dance, their singing, their religion,” she shared.

“We often said before that China seemed to be moving toward another Cultural Revolution, becoming more and more like the Cultural Revolution.

“The CCP under Xi Jinping has been carrying out its most systematic campaign of religious and political persecution since the Cultural Revolution,” the lawmaker wrote.

He is the son of Liu Shaoqi, the former chairman of China, who was targeted during the Cultural Revolution. (Feng Li/Getty Images) Mr.

Wang, a faculty member at Chongqing Normal University, said student-on-student and student-on-teacher reporting has grown more common in recent years, creating what he described as an atmosphere reminiscent of the CCP’s brutal Cultural Revolution from

Since the Chinese Communist regime took power in 1949, it has sought to destroy traditional Chinese culture through periodic violent campaigns such as the Cultural Revolution.

Through campaigns such as the Cultural Revolution, it has systematically uprooted traditional beliefs and destroyed ancestral treasures, bringing 5,000 years of civilization to the brink of extinction.”

“Through campaigns like the Cultural Revolution, it has systematically uprooted traditional beliefs and destroyed ancient treasures, bringing 5,000 years of civilization to the brink of extinction.” Mr.

Janice Trey, board chair of The Epoch Times, shared her experience growing up in a labor camp during the Cultural Revolution, a tumultuous 10-year communist campaign marked by violence, death, and destruction of valuable cultural heritage.

Revolution Nury Turkel, CCP reeducation camp survivor; senior fellow at the Hudson Institute; former chair of the U.S.

The group's mission is the revival of 5,000-years of Chinese civilisation, which was systematically destroyed by the CCP after it took power in 1949, notably during the Great Cultural Revolution.

[RUSH TRANSCRIPT BELOW] Xi Van Fleet grew up in China during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.

During a speech marking the significant occasion on Dec. 26, Xi touted Mao's accomplishments in establishing communist China, downplaying the "historical mistakes" of the Cultural Revolution, and called on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to achieve