Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003, Page 198
30 Zhu (note 24) p.46.
31 Elizabeth Perry mentions that, ‗At the time of the 1989 demonstrations, the government set up
hotlines in the major cities to encourage citizens to report any suspicious behavior by qigong
masters‘. From idem, ‗Reinventing the Wheel? The Campaign against Falungong‘, Harvard
China Review (Spring/Summer 2000) p.68.
32 Ownby (note 7) p.8.
33 Kluver (note 2) p.21.
34 Li (note 11), chapter entitled ‗All the Ways Lead to the Origin‘, p.2/2.
35 Li Hongzhi, ‗Deter Interference‘, 5 July 2000, http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/jw_16.htm.
Note: Many of Li‘s articles are only available via the Falun Gong website Minghui
(Clearwisdom). Because the website addresses for these articles change over time, if you
cannot locate the article at the webpage cited, go to the Falun Gong homepage,
http://www.clearwisdom.net, where Li‘s articles can be accessed by title and date.
36 Barend ter Haar, ‗China‘s Inner Demons: The Political Impact of the Demonological Paradigm‘,
China Information XI 2/3 (Autumn/Winter 1996–97) pp.54–88. Also see ter Haar‘s website on
the Falun Gong, http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/bth/falun.htm.
37 Ibid. p.85. It does not, according to ter Haar, ‗directly cause violent incidents, but functions in the
setting of human targets, establishing a sense of legitimacy for actual violence and defining
the general parameters for actual violence‘.
38 Li‘s teachings have always expressed a strong dualism. See Patsy Rahn, ‗The Falun Gong: Beyond
the Headlines‘, Cultic Studies Journal 17 (2000) pp.168–86. Since the ban, the dualism has
increasingly been expressed via the demonological paradigm.
39 Li Hongzhi, ‗Suffocate the Evil‘, 22 Oct. 2000, http://falun–ny.net/cgi–falun–
ny/index.pl?lan+english&id=outer_url&outer_url=http://www.falundafa…/jw20.ht idem,
‗Beyond the Limits of Forbearance‘, 1 Jan. 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2001/Jan/02/JingWen10201.html.
40 ‗Asiaweek names Falun Gong founder most powerful communicator‘, Kyoto News Service 24 May
2001. ‗The magazine said it redefined power this year as ―those who can communicate – or
control the message‖ because they are the ones who ―wield the greatest influence‖ in today‘s
information age‘.
41 The government‘s campaign against the group intensified following the 23 Jan. 2001 self-
immolations in Tiananmen Square of four adults and one 12-year-old girl who were reported
to be Falun Gong practitioners. The FLG deny that they were FLG practitioners and suggest
that the event was staged by the government. However, the Hong Kong-based Information
Center on Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China reports that ‗[a]ll but the 12-
year-old Liu Siying had protested Beijing‘s actions against Falun Gong in Tiananmen Square
previously‘, in Philip P.Pan, ‗Human Fire Ignites Chinese Mystery‘, The Washington Post, 4 Feb.
2001.
42 ‗CPC Central Committee Forbids Party Members to Practice Falun Gong‘, China Daily, 22 July 1999
‗People‘s Daily Article Calls for Strengthening Party Discipline‘, China Daily, 25 July 1999
‗Chinese Urged to Understand Nature of Struggle Against Falun Gong‘, China Daily, 29 July
1999.
43 Randy Peerenboom, China‘s Long March Toward Rule of Law, unpublished manuscript (2001), see
chapter entitled ‗Post-Mao Reforms: Competing Conceptions of Rule of Law‘. Peerenboom cites
Chu (1999) for the 400,000 figure, ‗One report claimed that the Party itself estimated the
number of party members who believed in Falungong to be 400,000. ―Three-Pronged purge‖
of Falungong Cited (1999)‘.
44 Ibid. Peerenboom includes a discussion on legal issues regarding the ban.
46 ‗People‘s Republic of China: Torture – A Growing Scourge in China‘, Amnesty International Online,
ai-index ASA 17/004/2001 12/02/2001.
46 ‗China Investigation Report 2000–2001: Studies of Contradictions Among The People Under New
Conditions‘, in Erik Eckholm, ‗China‘s Inner Circle Reveals Big Unrest‘, The New York Times, 3
June 2001.
47 See Mark R. Bell and Taylor C. Boas, ‗Falun Gong and the Internet: Evangelism, Community, and
Struggle for Survival‘, Nova Religio 5/2 (April 2002), copy received from Mark Bell in April
2001.
48 ‗Resisting All Evil Forces in the Human World‘, 27 April 2001, http://www.clear
wisdom.net/emh/articles/2201/4/27/9090.html. ‗The words from the corrupt people are full of
evil. We should resist them and should not repeat them in order to diminish their evil power.
30 Zhu (note 24) p.46.
31 Elizabeth Perry mentions that, ‗At the time of the 1989 demonstrations, the government set up
hotlines in the major cities to encourage citizens to report any suspicious behavior by qigong
masters‘. From idem, ‗Reinventing the Wheel? The Campaign against Falungong‘, Harvard
China Review (Spring/Summer 2000) p.68.
32 Ownby (note 7) p.8.
33 Kluver (note 2) p.21.
34 Li (note 11), chapter entitled ‗All the Ways Lead to the Origin‘, p.2/2.
35 Li Hongzhi, ‗Deter Interference‘, 5 July 2000, http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/jw_16.htm.
Note: Many of Li‘s articles are only available via the Falun Gong website Minghui
(Clearwisdom). Because the website addresses for these articles change over time, if you
cannot locate the article at the webpage cited, go to the Falun Gong homepage,
http://www.clearwisdom.net, where Li‘s articles can be accessed by title and date.
36 Barend ter Haar, ‗China‘s Inner Demons: The Political Impact of the Demonological Paradigm‘,
China Information XI 2/3 (Autumn/Winter 1996–97) pp.54–88. Also see ter Haar‘s website on
the Falun Gong, http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/bth/falun.htm.
37 Ibid. p.85. It does not, according to ter Haar, ‗directly cause violent incidents, but functions in the
setting of human targets, establishing a sense of legitimacy for actual violence and defining
the general parameters for actual violence‘.
38 Li‘s teachings have always expressed a strong dualism. See Patsy Rahn, ‗The Falun Gong: Beyond
the Headlines‘, Cultic Studies Journal 17 (2000) pp.168–86. Since the ban, the dualism has
increasingly been expressed via the demonological paradigm.
39 Li Hongzhi, ‗Suffocate the Evil‘, 22 Oct. 2000, http://falun–ny.net/cgi–falun–
ny/index.pl?lan+english&id=outer_url&outer_url=http://www.falundafa…/jw20.ht idem,
‗Beyond the Limits of Forbearance‘, 1 Jan. 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2001/Jan/02/JingWen10201.html.
40 ‗Asiaweek names Falun Gong founder most powerful communicator‘, Kyoto News Service 24 May
2001. ‗The magazine said it redefined power this year as ―those who can communicate – or
control the message‖ because they are the ones who ―wield the greatest influence‖ in today‘s
information age‘.
41 The government‘s campaign against the group intensified following the 23 Jan. 2001 self-
immolations in Tiananmen Square of four adults and one 12-year-old girl who were reported
to be Falun Gong practitioners. The FLG deny that they were FLG practitioners and suggest
that the event was staged by the government. However, the Hong Kong-based Information
Center on Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China reports that ‗[a]ll but the 12-
year-old Liu Siying had protested Beijing‘s actions against Falun Gong in Tiananmen Square
previously‘, in Philip P.Pan, ‗Human Fire Ignites Chinese Mystery‘, The Washington Post, 4 Feb.
2001.
42 ‗CPC Central Committee Forbids Party Members to Practice Falun Gong‘, China Daily, 22 July 1999
‗People‘s Daily Article Calls for Strengthening Party Discipline‘, China Daily, 25 July 1999
‗Chinese Urged to Understand Nature of Struggle Against Falun Gong‘, China Daily, 29 July
1999.
43 Randy Peerenboom, China‘s Long March Toward Rule of Law, unpublished manuscript (2001), see
chapter entitled ‗Post-Mao Reforms: Competing Conceptions of Rule of Law‘. Peerenboom cites
Chu (1999) for the 400,000 figure, ‗One report claimed that the Party itself estimated the
number of party members who believed in Falungong to be 400,000. ―Three-Pronged purge‖
of Falungong Cited (1999)‘.
44 Ibid. Peerenboom includes a discussion on legal issues regarding the ban.
46 ‗People‘s Republic of China: Torture – A Growing Scourge in China‘, Amnesty International Online,
ai-index ASA 17/004/2001 12/02/2001.
46 ‗China Investigation Report 2000–2001: Studies of Contradictions Among The People Under New
Conditions‘, in Erik Eckholm, ‗China‘s Inner Circle Reveals Big Unrest‘, The New York Times, 3
June 2001.
47 See Mark R. Bell and Taylor C. Boas, ‗Falun Gong and the Internet: Evangelism, Community, and
Struggle for Survival‘, Nova Religio 5/2 (April 2002), copy received from Mark Bell in April
2001.
48 ‗Resisting All Evil Forces in the Human World‘, 27 April 2001, http://www.clear
wisdom.net/emh/articles/2201/4/27/9090.html. ‗The words from the corrupt people are full of
evil. We should resist them and should not repeat them in order to diminish their evil power.
