SYDNEY, Australia—As Shen Yun Performing Arts continues its celebrated 2022 run of shows in Australia, the beauty and traditional culture displayed by the troupe gave audience members a true experience of “China before communism.”
Sarah Wilks, a jewellery designer, said the show opened her eyes to what communism has destroyed in China.
“I wonder what Chairman Mao destroyed,” Ms. Wilks said. ” I think it’s very sad to see the contrast of what I was taught as a young person was the aesthetic of China, and to come along and to see something like this … It’s absolutely beautiful.”
Ms. Wilks noted how despite having friends who are Chinese and learning about China her whole life, she felt as if her eyes were opened to the beauty of what she called Chinese high culture.
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