china, chinese calligraphy, falun gong, liu xitong, tradition, traditional calligraphy

Chinese Calligrapher Creates Artwork Reflecting the Pandemic Era

Liu Xitong is a renowned calligrapher from China who recently took part in a documentary by NTD Television titled “When the Plague Arrives.” The documentary chronicles how epidemic outbreaks overthrew ancient civilizations in the East and West over time, and how these events parallel the present-day COVID-19 outbreak. In the documentary, Liu is the central ...

Nspirement Staff

Calligrapher Liu Xitong sits with paper and ink.

UK Government Pressured BBC Segment on Organ Harvesting in China

The United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) used its authority to have BBC cancel a planned program about communist China’s organ harvesting abuses, according to rights figures and members of Parliament.  On Nov. 4, Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC, Chairman of the independent China Tribunal, said during a webinar hosted by the China Research Group ...

Nspirement Staff

BBC Newsnight program.

U.S. Officials Speak Out on Forced Organ Harvesting From Religious Prisoners in China

The Trump administration has expressed concern about long-standing allegations that people imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for their faith are being murdered for their organs, which is called forced organ harvesting. On July 20, U.S. State Department officials condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong, as adherents marked 21 years since the beginning ...

Jack Roberts

Secretarry of State Mike Pompeo.

Falun Gong: Stories of Practitioners Suffering in China

 In China today, a spiritual practice called Falun Gong is banned, and its practitioners are persecuted. Introduced in 1992 by its founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi, the practice gained popularity across the nation for its health and spiritual benefits. Within 7 years, an estimated 100 million people were practicing the five sets of exercises in public ...

Max Lu

Falun Gong practitioners meditating.

The Making of ‘Finding Courage’

In many ways, the documentary Finding Courage is an accidental film. Its director, Kay Rubacek from Swoop Films, initially never sought to make it a full-length feature. Having just finished producing the award-winning Hard to Believe documentary — about forced organ harvesting in China — Kay was looking to make her directorial debut with a ...

Jessica Kneipp

A scene from 'Finding Courage.'

Germany Condemns Chinese Exploitation of Uyghurs

Recently, a list of Uyghurs, held as prisoners at internment camps in Xinjiang, was leaked to the media. The document not only provided information about the detained people, but also had details of their relatives, friends, and neighbors. A few references also indicated that some Uyghurs were being made to do forced labor. Forced labor ...

Jack Roberts

Protesters demonstrating against the treatment of uyghurs.

A Courageous Story of 3 Australians Who Stood Up for Falun Gong

Protest at Heaven’s Gate is a short documentary that recounts the struggles of three Australians who, along with seven of their compatriots, traveled to China in 2002. They wanted to support persecuted Falun Gong (also known as  Falun Dafa) practitioners that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were torturing in detention centers and labor camps. Just ...

Max Lu

'Protest at Heaven's Gate.'