RAPID CITY, S.D.—Independent journalist Shad Olson, who had written books and political commentaries, enjoyed Shen Yun’s evening performance at The Monument on April 15.
This was Mr. Olson’s third time seeing Shen Yun, and he thought the show “came at a particularly poignant moment in world events.”
“We’re at a crossroads—not just in China but here in the United States as well,” he said.
Based in New York, Shen Yun was established in 2006 by a group of leading Chinese artists who had fled the persecution of the communist party.
For 5,000 thousand years, Chinese people believed that their culture was a gift from the divine. However, after the communist party’s violent takeover, the nation’s civilization and moral beliefs were completely destroyed….