UCLA
Center for East Asian Studies
East Asian Studies News File
Buddhist Law and PRC Government
April 26, 1999
"10,000 Protesters in Beijing Urge Cult's Recognition" New York Times, 04/26/99
Photo: Buddhist Law protesters outside Zhongnanhai. Associated Press, 04/26/99
April 27, 1999
"News Analysis: In Beijing: A Roar of Silent Protesters" New York Times, 04/27/99
June 29, 1999
"As Mystic Movement Assembles, Chinese Government Worries" New York Times, 06/29/99
July 22, 1999
"China Said to Prepare Ban on Sect; Protests Go On" New York Times, 07/22/99
July 23, 1999
"Elusive Falun Gong Leader Says Mass Following Rattles China" Agence France Presse, 07/23/99
"China Bans Falun Gong Sect in Toughest Crackdown Since 1989" Agence France Press, 07/23/99
"Falun Gong Banned" China Daily, 07/23/99
"Mainland Outlaws Falun Gong" South China Morning Post, 07/23/99
"People's Daily Editorial on Falun Gong Ban" People's Daily, 07/23/99
July 24, 1999
"Banned Movement's Head Urges Talks With China" The New York Times, 07/24/99
"Photo of Li Hongzhi" The New York Times, 07/24/99
August 5, 1999
"Breaking the Wheel" Far Eastern Economic Review, 08/05/99
August 9, 1999
"'Mass exodus' from Falun Gong" Agence France Presse, 08/09/99
"Anti-sect propaganda creating desired amount of fear" South China Morning Post, 08/09/99
"Li Hongzhi: the Man, His Deeds and Fabrications" The Beijing Review, 08/09/99
"Ban on Falun Gong Widely Supported" The Beijing Review, 08/09/99
"Some Cases of Sickness, Handicap and Death Resulting from Falun Gong Practice" The Beijing Review, 08/09/99
"China Bans Falun Gong" The Beijing Review, 08/09/99
August 10, 1999"Press claims success in battling banned sect." South China Morning Post, 08/10/99
December 7, 1999"China Rejects Clinton Criticism on Falungong" Agence France Presse, 12/07/99
December 27, 1999
"China Sentences 4 in Spiritual Group to Long Jail Time" New York Times, 12/27/99
December 28, 1999"Health Sects in China Thrive, if Authorities See No Threat" New York Times, 12/28/99
Falun Gong websites:
www.mindspring.com/~falun./intro/ Site introduces Falun Gong teachings and writings
www.nh.ultranet.com/~dayong/flhome.html A rather comprehensive site about Falun Gong based in New Hampshire
www.uidaho.edu/student_orgs/falun/eng/flg.htm
