HOUSTON—China in the past 70 years has had a completely different image from what China was for the 5,000 years before that. Shen Yun Performing Arts is using dance and music to remind audiences around the world of the long history that China had before communism. “I think it was magnificent, it was beautiful and inspiring. But I found it also interesting the way that they were talking about the culture and separating it from the current enforced culture,” said Roger Sherril, a retired mental health counselor. Shen Yun is based in New York and its seven companies tour around the world simultaneously, sharing the beauty of China wherever it goes. “It’s like if you get two people from two different cultures that have a chance to get to know each other, both of them can grow and realize that, hey, there are good things that come from someplace else …