TORONTO, Canada—As a publisher, Dean Baxendale has published several books on China and its ruling communist regime. He was delighted when he first saw a “China before communism” last year at a Shen Yun Performing Arts performance. He returned to see Shen Yun—which puts on an all-new production each year—this year at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on April 7.
“It’s just a really incredible experience, you know, uplifting spiritually. It speaks to civilization and humanity. Just the ancient tradition that, unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party has really suppressed over the last 70 years,” Mr. Baxendale said….