Featured Essays
Below we feature the very best in research, scholarship, and investigative journalism done on Falun Gong over the last two decades.
National Review
American policy-makers should clearly condemn this persecution against Falun Gong and declare it a genocide. READ
Freedom House
Despite a 17-year Chinese Communist Party (CCP) campaign to eradicate the spiritual group, millions of people in China continue to practice Falun Gong. READ
Arthur Waldron, U. Penn Lauder Professor of International Relations
The excessive caution many people show with respect to Falun Gong has the same source as the non-appearance of politicians when the Dalai Lama visits. That source is fear of what the Chinese authorities may do to them. READ
Genocide Studies and Prevention
The article explores patterns of a cold genocide in the eradication campaign against Falun Gong. In comparison to the documented cases of genocide, the genocide of Falun Gong stands out as anomalous because it is virtually ignored. READ
Washington Examiner
How a handful of unknown Chinese martyrs tapped into the state-run television system to broadcast programs debunking CCP propaganda, and aided the cause of freedom around the world. READ
Jamestown Foundation
An in-depth analysis of a CCP-based, rather than a state-based, security organization, which marks the revival of the use of security agencies to enforce ideological compliance in China. READ
Human Rights in China
The Chinese government has been particularly virulent in its suppression of Falungong, a peaceful quasi-religious movement that proliferated rapidly in the 1990s. READ
National Review
Nobody knew much about them, but the scale of the event was shocking: 10,000 Chinese standing silently in the first mass demonstration since Tiananmen. READ
Wall Street Journal
A Pulitzer Prize-winning series of investigative reports on the campaign to torture and kill Falun Gong into submission. READ
Arc Digital
For many elite institutions, victims only matter when they’re useful. There is perhaps no better example and the deafening silence around the plight of Falun Gong. READ
UCA News
A time may come when the CCP is no longer ruling China and Falun Gong is again a popular, permitted public activity. READ
New York Times
In the context of modern Chinese history, traditionalism can be subversive, and Falun Gong — by bringing together science, spirituality and Chinese nationalism — has proved to be explosive. READ
