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On March 31, 2007, the Divine Performing Arts performed the last show of its Australian tour in Sydney. The Divine Performing Arts held 12 shows in five Australian cities over a two week period, and more than 20 thousand people enjoyed their performances.
 The Audience |
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More than 400 politicians in Australiaenjoyed the shows.
Although the Chinese Embassy tried to interfere with the shows, and asked politicians who were invited to the show not to go, more than 400 politicians attended the shows and receptions, including the Attorney General, Members of Parliament, mayors, and diplomats from Holland, England, Switzerland and Mexico.
Mr. Phillip Ruddock, Attorney General, said that the performances were fabulous. The Tang Dynasty style dancing and the stage designs brought the beauty of the Chinese arts to the audience.
 Mr. Phillip Ruddock, Attorney General |
Mr. Campbell Newman, the mayor of Brisbane, his wife Lisa and their daughters enjoyed the show. They appreciated that the Divine Performing Arts brought such a wonderful show to the people in Australia, and they hope that the people in Australia will have a deeper understanding of the Chinese culture through the show.
 Mr. Campbell Newman, the mayor of Brisbane, his wife Lisa and their daughters |
The Media intensively report the shows.
Many media in Australia reported the shows, including SBS Cantonese Radio Station, the Sydney Moring Herald, the Daily Telegraph, ABC National TV Station, Canberra ABC TV, South Cross Ten TV, 2Ca Radio, the Canberra Times, BBC World Radio, and Captial Express.
In New South Wales, Channels 7 and 9, TVS, FM 99.3, 96.3 FM, 87.3 FM, Radio Live, 2MBS Radio, Universal Publication, Street Version, the Leader, North Shore Time, Inner West, Parramatta Advertiser, MX and newspapers in the Italian community, Philippians community, Korean community, and Vietnamese community reported the shows.
On March 30, the biggest newspaper in Australia�"the Sydney Moring Herald reported the show with many photos. Another major media in Australia�"the Daily Telegraph interviewed Ms. Li Weina, a dancer in the Divine Performing Art Troupe. The Daily Telegraph reported the show and the interference from the CCP.
 The Daily Telegraph interviews Ms. Li Weina, a dancer in the Divine Performing Art Troupe. |
The Italian newspaper, La Fiamma, published the report of the show and called it China's magnificent cultural renaissance.
 The report of the show titled "China's magnificent cultural renaissance" on La Fiamma |
Professional artists compliment the shows
Many professional artists in Australia praised the show.
Bona, who has lived in Sydney for 19 years, is a professional dancer. He said: "I think the performances are awesome. It is very traditional. The shows in Mainland China lost the traditional styles and do not have the essence of the Western art either, which really bothers me. The Divine Performing Arts performances are very pure. The hosts of the show are great too. They are humorous and collaborated with each other very well."
Professor Barbara Broom, of the Department of Music, South Queensland University, said that the show helped her experience a sense of gracefulness. She said that the music and dances are beautiful and splendid. She felt that it was a very good and enjoyable artistic performance. She pointed out that she especially liked the solo on the Chinese musical instrument, the Erhu. She hopes that Divine Performing Arts will perform in her hometown next year.
Mr. Guo Ping, a former flute player in Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, said: "the stage design is too beautiful to describe with language. The whole show, including the dances and music, is very professional and much better than I expected."
 Mr. Guo Ping, a former flute player in China |
Mr. Yang Jun, a professional performer in the Central Orchestra of China, said: "I used to be a director in China and organized many shows. But the NTDTV�"wow�"perfectly melted the whole Chinese history over thousands of years into one show on one stage. This is the most pure and beautiful show I ever watched in my whole life."
Mr. Yang, who used to be a stage designer for 40 years in China, cried during the show. He said: "I am very excited. I devoted my whole life to the stage art, so I can tell the NTDTV's show is very high level, especially the stage design. The show is very pure, which cannot be seen in China anymore. The director of the show is great, and the dances manifested the great image of China. It is really pity that such a good show can only be seen overseas." Mr. Yang cried again.
 Mr. Yang, a former stage designer in China |
Joanna Jennen, an artist, said: "The show is amazing. The music and dances are harmonic. Although I am not a Falun Gong practitioner, I feel that Falun Gong is beautiful. I like the Chinese dances. I think the dances in the show combined the style of ballet and acrobat. I will come next year."
The audience praised the show
The audience was completely amazed by the show. Many of them
expressed
that every performance was great, so it is hard to say which one is the
best. Some of them like the historic stories in the show, such as Hua
Mulan's story and Yue Fei's story. Some of them liked the Mongolian and
Tibetan dances. Ms. Qin Xiaochen's Erhu performance was very
outstanding and touched many people's hearts. Many people were touched
by the dance.
Mr. Terry Ower, a lawyer in Sydney, and his wife Lauria said: "we were very sad that Falun Gong practitioners were beaten to death. We are also sad that such a good show can not be held in China." Their daughter Lucinda said that she believes in the principle "good is rewarded with good and evil is met with evil" which was manifested by the performance.
Mr. Terry Ower said that they liked the Chinese dances, which can manifest a story in 10 minutes. Ballet cannot do it.
Mr. Jason Lin, a city representative from Sydney, said: "all the Chinese people who came to the show will think of the long history of China during the show, and Westerners will learn the beauty of Chinese culture."
 Mr. Jason Lin, a city representative from Sydney |
Ms. Zhang Yuzhi, the chief of The Chinese Educational and Culture Center in Sydney, said: "I am very touched. I like the hosts of the show, because they are very humorous. I came last year, but I was more touched this year. I wish the show a bigger success."
 Ms. Zhang Yuzhi, the chief of The Chinese Educational and Culture Center in Sydney |
Ms. Xu Bojin, a member of Chinese Association in Sydney, said: "the show this year is more professional and more successful. It greatly promotes the Chinese culture and Falun Dafa. I watched every performance and like all of them."
 Ms. Xu Bojin, a member of Chinese Association in Sydney |
People from different cultures enjoy the show too.
Many Westerners from different cultures enjoyed the show too.
Mr. Aedenn Jirene and his wife Row An are Aborigines. They liked the show very much, especially the themes that the show tried to manifest, such as loyalty and family values.
Mr. Aedenn Jirene and his wife Row An said that those values manifested by the show are very similar to the ones in their own culture. For example, the first dance "Creation" tells how the gods come down to the world and created the human culture. In the native Australian culture, people also believe that human beings are from a place called "State of Dream" in the heaven. They come to the world for a short period, and eventually they will go back to heaven. Mr. Jirene said that they believe the principle of "good is rewarded with good and evil is met with evil" and it is sad that modern Chinese people don't believe in it.
Mr. Jirene said that the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" is really beneficial for Chinese people. They said that Chinese people should have their own belief otherwise China will be very chaotic.
 Ms. Victoria Vitner from Russia |
Ms. Victoria Vitner migrated from Russia a long time ago. She liked the first performance of the show. She said: "I cried, because I know some information of Falun Gong. A Falun Gong practitioner and her daughter in Russia were deported back to China last week. It is horrible. I hope that I can help them, because they might be persecuted to death in China." She cried again.
The show is a bridge between different cultures.
Many Australian-born Chinese children came to the show too. They have the looking of Chinese, but know very little about Chinese culture. Their parents took them to the show and hoped that they will learn some Chinese culture through the show.
The parents and children expressed that show is fantastic, pure and full of energy. They feel that they learn a lot about Chinese culture through the show. Some of them expressed that the show cannot be better, and they will recommend it to their friends and come again next year.
The Chief of Human Rights Organization: The message that the show delivers has the universal values.
Ms. Shelley Wilkins, the chief of Citizens Commission on Human Rights in Australia, and her husband Mr. John Wilkins enjoyed the show. They strongly felt the spirits in the show. They expressed that the values that the show tried to manifest are universal and very traditional. Mr. Wilkins likes the song "Looking for the truth." He said that the values in the show are beneficial to everybody, so everybody is able to enjoy the show.
 Ms. Shelley Wilkins, the chief of Citizens Commission on Human Rights in Australia, and her husband Mr. John Wilkins |
Ms. Wilkins said the dance "To the Rightful Place" is her favorite, because she believes in the principle of "good is rewarded with good and evil is met with evil." She said that it is amazing that the principle can be manifested by dance.
Mr. and Ms. Wilkins knew about the persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Wilkins said that in Melbourne, a Falun Gong practitioner gave her the material exposing the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. She felt horrible. She said that it is pity that many governments and organizations keep silent about it although they know about it, and it is also pity that due to the CCP's brainwashing, many Chinese people don't have the traditional values anymore.
Mr. Wilkins expressed that people from different culture are able to enjoy the show, and learn the traditional Chinese culture from it. The values manifested by the show, such as compassion and forbearance are universal in different cultures. They expressed that they will recommend the show to their friends and will come to it next year.
The best gift
Mr. Lesmont Gonery is 80. He told reporters that the show is the best birthday gift he ever got from his children. He liked the show very much and highly recommends it to everybody.
Delphine bought the ticket of the show as a gift to her husband Anthony. She liked the colorful ribbon dancing because it is pretty and full of energy. Anthony liked the drum playing the best. To surprise her husband, Delphine didn't tell Anthony what gift she bought until they came to the theatre. Anthony laughed and said this is the best gift. Delphine said that they have the predetermined relationship with Buddhism, and they believe in reincarnation and karmic relationship. Although they have never been to China, they are interested in Chinese stuff and movies.
The show gave them very special feelings. It has special energy which made them feel peaceful. They felt sad about the persecution of Falun Gong. Delphine and Anthony said that the story of the dance "To the Rightful Place" is sad but is the truth. They believe that a power in the universe is watching human beings.
After 12 shows in five cities in Australia, the Divine Performing
Arts
will go to New Zealand and Taiwan next. The audience in Australia
awaits next year's show.
On April 1, 2007, Zhang Jiyan, the wife of a Chinese diplomat at the Chinese Embassy in Canada, told reporters in Ottawa that she has evidence that Huang Huikang, the Minister Counsellor and Consul General, is one of the people in charge of persecuting Falun Gong in Canada. Ms. Zhang pointed out that what Huang Huikang has lied to Western reporters. She also explained the reasons that she left the Chinese Embassy and how she was watched by the Chinese Embassy officials.
 Ms. Zhang announced that she quits the CCP during a rally at Parliament Hill, Ottawa. |
Ms. Zhang is the wife of a diplomat at the Chinese Embassy. On March 30, she announced her withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party at a rally in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Ms. Zhang has evidence that Huang Huikang persecutes Falun Gong
Ms. Zhang Jiyan exposed that there is a "Political Research Office" consisting of ten staff members at the Chinese Embassy. The task of this office is to deal with democratic movement activists, Falun Gong, Free Tibet organizations and Taiwan independent movement activists. The office focuses on persecuting Falun Gong. Huang Huikang, the Minister Counsellor and Consul General, persecutes Falun Gong on one hand, and denies the persecution to the Canadian media on the other hand.
Ms. Zhang said: "I have evidence that Huang Huikang is directly in charge of and involved in the persecution of Falun Gong." Ms. Zhang said that what Huang Huikang told the Western reporters are lies.
Ms. Zhang Jiyan told the reporters that the head of this office was Sun Lushan, then Chen Wangxia, and now is Zhang Weidong. Huang Huikang is a high ranking official in the Chinese Embassy, and in charge of this office. Huang issues orders to incite overseas Chinese to persecute Falun Gong in Canada.
"I quit the CCP, but I didn't renounce my Chinese citizenship."
The Canadian press incorrectly reported that Ms. Zhang Jiyan renounced her Chinese citizenship and some Chinese media and websites cited those reports. Ms. Zhang pointed out that some Western and Chinese media incorrectly equate the CCP with China.
She said: "I announced my quitting the Chinese Communist Party at the rally on March 31, but I didn't give up my Chinese citizenship. I love my country, and I will go back to China as soon as the persecution of Falun Gong ends."
Ms. Zhang had attended Master Li Hongzhi's lecture in the Chinese Embassy in France.
In 1995, Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, was invited by the Chinese Embassy in France to give a lecture. Ms. Zhang Jiyan and her husband were at the Chinese Embassy in France then. Almost all the employees and their family members attended the lecture. Ms. Zhang started cultivating Falun Gong then. Ms. Zhang told reporters that the lecture was videotaped.
In 1998, Ms. Zhang and her husband went back to China. After the CCP launched the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Zhang went to appeal for Falun Gong with other practitioners. She was arrested. She refused to cooperate with the policemen and refused to tell her name. Later, she was released.
In April 2003, Ms. Zhang came to Canada with her husband as the family member of a Chinese diplomat. On July 1, 2003, she saw Falun Gong practitioners in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and contacted them.
Diane Shi, a Falun Gong practitioner from Ottawa, said that she got to know Ms. Zhang Jiyan in July 2003, and kept in touch with her. Ms. Shi said that Ms. Zhang had bought Falun Gong books from other Falun Gong practitioners and asked for Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials.
Ms. Zhang said: "I've never regretted that I practice Falun Gong. I know what I have been doing these past few years. I am a Falun Gong practitioner. I don't regret leaving the Chinese Embassy."
"We have to turn on the exhaust fan when we talk."
Ms. Zhang sometimes gave the Epoch Times newspaper to the officials in the Chinese Embassy, and clarified the truth of Falun Gong to them. She said: "There are many good people in the embassy. They listen to me, but they don't dare to make comments. They don't have that freedom."
Ms. Zhang said: "You never know where they install listening devices. When I talked to my husband at home, we had to turn on the exhaust fan and turn up the volume on the TV. This kind of life is very depressing."
Ms. Zhang told the reporters that there are many video cameras around their house, and she saw at least six.
The Chinese Embassy spied on Ms. Zhang and her husband.
After Ms. Zhang clarified the truth to people surrounding her, the Chinese Embassy started paying attention to her and watching her. The Chinese Embassy stepped up their surveillance on them before the expiration data of her husband's visa�"April 2007.
Ms. Zhang said: "After the summer of 2006, they watched me very closely. Wherever I went, there was somebody spying on me. They wanted to know where I went and what I put into my car."
One weekend in February 2007, she and her husband went shopping. They found that two officials from the "political research office" were spying on them in the parking lot. Ms. Zhang and her husband went to a different super market, and they saw another official from the same office there.
"They inspected our phone bills and tried to figure out who I was in touch with. They opened my mail and sometimes my mail 'got lost'. They even inspected my bank statement."
"Why do I leave the embassy?"
The Chinese Embassy tried to take away Ms. Zhang's passport. She felt the pressure and finally left the embassy on March 5.
"If I go back to China, I will be arrested and sent to a brainwashing facility. I won't be able to live with my husband anyway." Ms. Zhang said: "The CCP's persecution of Falun Gong involves practitioners' family members. I didn't feel safe at the embassy. I left the embassy so that my husband will not be involved."
Ms. Zhang said: "I need to consider my own safety too, since the CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners."
"Huang Huikang lied, saying that I wanted to stay in Canada so I left the embassy." Ms. Zhang said "Why would I wait until now, if I just wanted to stay in a foreign country? I could have stayed in France several years ago."
Ms. Zhang told the reporters that she started dating her husband in 1984 and got married in 1986 in Beijing. They have a very happy family. It was very difficult for her to make this decision and be separated from her husband. It is due to the persecution. Ms. Zhang said that she will go back to China immediately if the persecution stops.
Calling upon the Chinese diplomats to learn the truth and quit the party
Ms. Zhang hopes that all the Chinese diplomats will take advantage
of
living overseas to learn the truth about Falun Gong and recognize the
evil nature of the CCP. She called upon them to quit the CCP and its
affiliated organizations for a wonderful future.
On March 31, 2007, the Irish Branch of the Global Quitting the CCP Service Center and several other organisations held a march and rally in Dublin to support the 20 million Chinese people who have withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organisations. At the activity, some Chinese students quit the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers on the spot.
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The parade of supporting withdrawals from the CCP |
At 2:30 p.m., the parade started from Parnell Square, passing through Parnell Street where there are many Chinese shops, and arrived at O’Connell Street. The parade procession presented banners reading “Support 20 Million Chinese People Quitting the CCP”, “the Chinese Communist Party’s Root Has Been Pulled Out”, “Heaven Will Eliminate the CCP, Quitting the CCP is for Your Own Safety” and so on. Along the route of the parade, many Chinese people came out of the shops to watch.
After the parade, a rally of supporting 20 million Chinese people quitting the CCP was held at O’Connell Street. Ms Li, the spokesperson from Ireland's Quitting the CCP Service Center, and Ms Angela from the Epoch Times made speeches at the rally. Finally the Service Center volunteers returned to Parnell Street to distribute the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” and other materials to Chinese people, and also provided assistance for people to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. There were some Chinese students who renounced the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers on the spot.
The spokesperson for Quitting the CCP Service Center, Ms Li, said at the rally that, the theme of this activity was “the Chinese Communist Party’s root has been pulled out”. She also reviewed the irresistible tide of quitting the CCP as well as the awakening of Chinese people since the Nine Commentaries were published.
She said, “the book Nine Commentaries has been banned in China, but it can never stop the spreading of the book; the spreading of the Nine Commentaries has become more and more intense instead. It is reported that Chinese people, from high level officials to ordinary citizens, are looking for the book, and warm-heartedly circulating the book. More and more Chinese people, from the central government to local authorities, from government senior officials, armed forces to ordinary people, have chosen to quit the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers to save their own lives. They have already clearly realized that the Communist Party is extremely evil and corrupt. The historical storm of exposing and criticizing the CCP’s crimes and quitting the CCP to erase the marks of the CCP’s evil specter for self salvation is surging forward in billowy waves.”
She added that many Chinese people, including those who are appealing for aid, victims of a natural calamity, farmers who lost land, workers who lost job, citizens who are forced to move, students who have been deceived, and citizens who have been persecuted, have awakened through reading the Nine Commentaries and other materials as well which deal with appalling crimes committed by the CCP, such as the recent killing at Dongzhou, Guangdong province, and the CCP’s organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and so on. They no longer hold any fantasies about the CCP. Their movement of “upholding human rights and resisting tyranny” has also changed the strategy from begging the CCP to bestow favors to exposing the CCP’s atrocity, supporting withdrawing from the CCP and disintegrating the CCP.
Ms Angela, a representative from the Epoch Times, indicated that, now that the number of withdrawals from the CCP recorded on the Epoch Times website has reached over 20 million, a great number of Chinese people are using web-tools of breaking through the CCP’s Internet blockade to send their statements quitting the CCP overseas, which makes the evil party panic. It has no way out but to employing gangster tactics to persecute the Chinese people who withdraw from the CCP and those who are upholding human rights. As revealed in the Nine Commentaries, this irascible nature of the CCP is not an indicator of its might, but its extreme weakness and irrationality before its evil political power vanishes.
After the rally, the Quitting CCP Service Center volunteers returned to Parnell Street to distribute the Nine Commentaries to Chinese people, and provide the service of quitting the CCP on spot. A young Chinese student said, “I watched the Nine Commentaries DVD a long time ago, and knew about this matter. I did not understand why we need to quit the CCP, but I understand it now.” Finally he used an alias to quit the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers. An Irish person told him that the Communist Party is evil, and what he did is good, and a blessing.
Since The Epoch Times published an editorial series entitled, “Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party”
at the end of 2004, Chinese people around the world have published
their statements on the Quitting-the-CCP website to renounce the CCP
and its affiliated organizations. By March 29, 2007, the number of
people who have announced their withdrawals from the CCP and its
affiliated organizations has exceeded 20 million. Cities in five
continents of the world have held a series of activities to support the
withdrawal movement.