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mrlolloran t1_j264bon wrote

Reply to comment by kazzin8 in Anyone seen Shen Yun before? Mom got us 2 tickets for this weekend @ Wang Center and no clue about what to expect! by bostonguy2004

I’ve never seen the show but I used to see their ads everywhere. They are overtly political and even the posters would give you reason to at least suspect it. Part of their pitch is about how they were banned under China’s communist party. Whether that’s true or a talking point I don’t know but again, nobody should be surprised it gets political.

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Mt8045 t1_j265mfx wrote

They were in fact very banned after it became increasingly popular in China in the 1990s. Many were imprisoned, sometimes killed.

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kazzin8 t1_j26m1cu wrote

They were banned in the late 90s I think because they didn't want to allow the Communist party to control them. Unfortunately some time after that they went to the weird anti-vaxx QAnon dark side.

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