Xiao Ran
Chinese Democracy Activists Show Support at Shen Yun’s Toronto Performances
TORONTO, Canada — On June 25-28, Shen Yun Performing Arts returned to Toronto after six performances scheduled earlier this year were canceled following alleged bomb threats targeting the New York-based performing arts troupe. Following the...
11 Years After China’s ‘709 Crackdown,’ Exiled Lawyer Reflects on Its Lasting Impact
11 years after China's sweeping "709 Crackdown" saw hundreds of human rights lawyers, legal advocates, and activists detained or questioned nationwide, exiled attorney Wu Shaoping says the campaign continues to cast a long shadow over...
Shen Yun Closes 20th Anniversary World Tour to Sold-Out Audiences in Toronto
TORONTO, Canada — Shen Yun Performing Arts concluded its 20th anniversary world tour with a triumphant return to Toronto, where five performances from June 25 to 28 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing...
Shen Yun Returns to Toronto to a Packed House Despite Intimidation Campaign
TORONTO, Canada — On June 25-28, Shen Yun Performing Arts' New York Company returned to Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts for a sold-out run, marking a triumphant return after false bomb threats...
‘Good Will Triumph Over Evil’: Hong Kong Muay Thai Champion Moved By Shen Yun
TORONTO, Canada — After months of disappointment, bomb threats, and canceled performances, former Hong Kong Muay Thai champion Kui Teng finally realized his long-awaited wish of seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts after the company returned...
Canadian MPs Welcome Shen Yun’s Return to Toronto After Earlier Cancellations
From June 25–28, Shen Yun Performing Arts will return to Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts with five performances, bringing its 20th anniversary global touring season to a close. The performances come after...
Shen Yun Makes Return to Toronto Following Bomb Threats That Cancelled Its Performances
On June 25-28, Shen Yun Performing Arts will return to Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, marking a final stop for the company's 2026 global tour. The troupe's return comes after six previously...
Exclusive: The Forgotten Reformer Who Tried to Prevent Tiananmen’s Tragedy
A yellowed newspaper clipping. A signed agreement bearing the names of scholars and student representatives. A father who walked to a neighborhood market and never came home. 37 years later, in an exclusive interview with...
June Fourth Survivor Li Shuangde Recounts Being Wounded and Rescued by Beijing Residents
June 4, 2026, marked the 37th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. Around this anniversary, Vision Times interviewed Li Shuangde, a June Fourth eyewitness and human rights lawyer. Thirty-seven years after the events, Li—then...
A Chinese Law Student Who Joined the 1989 Tiananmen Hunger Strike Recalls the Six Weeks That Led to the Massacre
Beijing students took to the streets within days of Hu Yaobang's death On April 15, 1989, Hu Yaobang died. Hu had served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party before being forced out in...
‘I Had Resolved to Die’: Former Peking University Student Recalls Tiananmen Crackdown
37 years after the Tiananmen Square crackdown, former Peking University student Li Yingzhi still remembers the spring of 1989 like it happened yesterday. Now living in the United States, the former history major reopened the...
Tiananmen Square Massacre Survivor Reflects on Prison, Silence, and the CCP’s Future
A firsthand witness to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre reflects on imprisonment, generational silence, and why he compares Western engagement with Beijing to pre-war appeasement of Nazi Germany. Thirty-seven years after Chinese Communist Party troops...