I guess watching the show is good for Chinese people, they need to realize how oppressed they are in China. Most of them don’t even know about the Tiananmen Square Massacre in ’89.

I’ve been to China and I’ve seen the brutal tactics of police against peaceful demonstrators in person. The communists are a blood thirsty cruel group. Their time is numbered. When Chinese people finally wake up, it won’t take long for a 1.5 billion people to replace a few thousand cadres.

The world will be a better place once it is rid of the ‘communists’ . No non-elected regime should rule any country. They never put the interests of the people first, only their own.

You can read more about China’s communists at ninecommentaries.com

I hope any Chinese person who reads this can wake up and help others to wake up in China too.

I felt the hosts to be a bit hokey in their presentation to be honest
and the show was very LONG.

I came to realize the extent of the spiritual element as well. I
didn’t realize it would be such a predominant factor in the entire
production which brought about a bit of discomfort on the level of
expressing the primary practice which is obviously Falun Dafa. I would
have appreciated it more if there was an awareness of this before
attending the production. Compare it to being invited to a concert
knowing nothing beforehand except that the music was good and coming
to find that it was a Christian outreach during the production. I felt
it to be a bit almost ‘evangelical’ on the part of the spiritual
belief systems of Falun Dafa.I am not criticizing what was presented,
but I am being critical of the fact that it wasn’t stressed ahead of
time. At least with Christian outreaches I know what I am getting
myself into beforehand because it is made clear that the gospel will
be preached. In this case, I wasn’t given the respect to choose
whether or not I would like to be exhorted in the Falun Dafa practice
as it being the ‘truth’ or the ‘only way’.
I am aware of the elements of Falun Dafa and I personally have a
different spiritual viewpoint. I thought this production would give
elements of all Spiritual Chinese practices without granting favor to
one over another. Falun Dafa was clearly spotlighted in this
production so I feel that it was misleading in advertisement as well
as to accurate historic Chinese culture. There are many different
Spiritual practices stemming from the Chinese culture. I was quite
disappointed in this element of the show.
If I am ever to recommend another “Spectacular” to others, I am going
to need to stress the fact that Falun Dafa is going to be spotlighted
since there is no indication of it in marketing.

I think if they read this column, I would suggest them to make it a little more subtle, using some more symbolic artistic modifications to reduce the few possible strong reaction from those grow up in mainland China.

Overall, it was such a great show and I liked it very much!

Chinese people are great people, it’s so sad some of my Chinese friends are polluted by the Communist thinking. I truly appreciate NTDTV and Divine Performing Arts’ effort for stage the performance, it does take courage and wisdom to put on a show like this one!! You’ve got to let Falun Gong people to express what they have to say and they’re doing a good thing for spreading peace and compassion…

It is not very hard to realize you work for Chinese consulate.

Next time, try a little bit better …

http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/zfl_new.html

It can be very spiritual/religious in nature, including talk about demons and one’s ability to develop “supernormal” abilities and going to “high levels.” It *selectively* draws from Buddhism and QiGong.

We should critically look at Falun Gong. It is debatably a cult by western definitions.

There is a website that collects a bunch of info on Falun Gong in a critical manner. Check it out here: http://www.rickross.com/groups/falun.html

I think the criticism of the show comes most strongly from people within the Chinese community because the show does not deserve as much positive attention as they get. There are plenty of Chinese New Year shows and celebrations that don’t get nearly as much attention due to the lack of funds most of these have. And when something as “beautiful” as the NTDTV show is created but it has such political and religious overtones in such a misleading manner, you cannot help but be so upset. I think the rest of the chinese community doesn’t want you to believe that Chinese New Year is about politics and these messages. The real Chinese New Year is more about community and celebration. It involves the animal horoscopes, lion dances, kung fu etc..

It really doesn’t matter if you are against communism or for communism in China, the show misled the public in such a serious way. One cannot help but to believe that perhaps Falun Gong or NTDTV is just as bad as Communist China in being manipulative.