Talk:History of Falun Gong/sources

List sources here.

Format:

== Some kind of categorization, like primary, secondary, high reliability==

=== Title of the source ===

• Link:
• Author:
• Source reliability:
• Quotes:
  1. relevant quotes here, these should be also present in the quote= parameter of the Template:Citation used to describe the article
  2. another quote from this source
  3. etc ...
• Additional notes: ... an interpretation regarding this source (optional)

Primary sources

A Chronicle of Major Historic Events during the Introduction of Falun Dafa to the Public

• Link: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/10/8/53286.html
• Author: Falun Gong practitioners
• Quote:
  1. "Preparation for Falun Gong's Public Introduction (May 13, 1951 to May 1992);"
  2. "Falun Gong's Public Introduction (May 13, 1992 to December 31, 1994);"
  3. "Falun Gong Spreads Around the World (1995 to July 20, 1999);"
  4. "The Fa-rectification Period of Anti-persecution and Truth Clarification (July 20, 1999 to the present)."
• List of third party sources which can partially or completely substitute this primary source:
  1. Cults: a reference handbook, by By James R. Lewis
  2. FALUN GONG IN THE UNITED STATES: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY, by NOAH PORTER

Secondary sources

Cults: a reference handbook

• Link from books.google.co.uk
• Author: James R. Lewis, known for?
• Quote:
  1. There is a small section about Falun Gong quotes can be copied from pages 124, 125

High reliability sources

FALUN GONG IN THE UNITED STATES: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY

• Link: http://etd.fcla.edu/SF/SFE0000113/FalunGongInTheUS-NoahPorter-Thesis.pdf
• Author: NOAH PORTER;
• Source reliability: This is his study for "A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida"
• Quote:
  1. On the introduction of Falun Gong: "Unlike many other qigong practices around at the time, Li Hongzhi was not secretive in sharing Falun Gong; he held mass lectures with low fees. He founded the Falun Xiulian Dafa Research Society (Falun gong yanjiuhui) in 1993, along with Li Chang, Wang Zhiwen, and Yu Changxin (Tong 2002a: 640), “which would coordinate the organizational infrastructure of Falun gong and translate his works into different languages” (Bruseker 2000: 60). The Falun Xiulian Dafa Research Society was accredited and established as direct branch affiliate (zhishu gongpai) of the Chinese Qigong Research Society that same year with the title of Falun Gong Research Branch Society (Falun gong yanjiu fenhui) (Bruseker 2000: 61; Tong 2002a: 640)."
  2. lots more, build up as they come up ...

China's transformations: the stories beyond the headlines

• Link from books.google.co.uk
• Author: Weston, Timothy B. known for?
• Quote:
  1. "Falun Gong practitioners succeeded in creating a considerable sympathy for the plight of their fellow practitioners in China playing on the anti-Communist sentiment that continues to resonate in some parts of the continent, as well as on the claim that freedom of speech and freedom of religion are universal values that should be respected universally."
  2. "Nor is it surprising that jails, detention centers and labor camps came to be filled to overflowing with Falun Gong practitioners. In the fall of 1999, practitioners in North America began to track the anti-Falun Gong campaign in China and set up websites to disseminate the results of their findings worldwide."
  3. "Such flames became all too deadly in 2001, when a number of Falun gong practitioners apparently set themselves on fire in Tienanmen Square on January 23, resulting in five deaths. This incident remains highly disputed, Falun Gong practitioners and spokesman insisting that the event was staged by Chinese officials (who long refused, for example, to allow Western journalists to interview those who had survived their own attempted self-immolation, although it would seem that such interviews would have been a golder opportunity for China to illustrate that Falun Gong 'drives people crazy')".
  4. please feel free to add to it, it would be good to copy pages 104, 105, 106

• Reference used in article for: "Jensen and Weston (2006) noticed a marked change in the tone of Li Hongzhi's messages following the ban: practitioners who remained steadfast against the oppression would survive the apocalypse while those who succumbed to pressure would not. Those who died or had suffered were promised 'consummation', or 'enlightenment.'", "Jensen and Weston remarked it was clear from Li Hongzhi's messages that he advocated martyrdom over prudence, and that 'if the Chinese authorities lit the fire, Li just as clearly fanned the flames.'"

Raw links, needs sorting

• Google news search results
• "China syndrome: the persecution of Falun Gong" in The Christian Century, an American mainstream Protestant source.
• US Department of State source containing multiple references to the "persecution of Falun Gong": http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/67820.pdf
• San Francisco Chronicle: "SF supes vote to condemn persecution of Falun Gong"
• June 2009 Boston Globe article: Perhaps nothing today so exemplifies the totalitarian implacability of China's rulers as their ruthless persecution of Falun Gong, a quasi-religious discipline of meditation and breathing exercises, combined with moral teachings about truth, compassion, and forbearance. By civilized standards, it is incomprehensible that anything so innocuous and peaceable could provoke bloody repression.
• Academic publication by Ashgate Publishing: [1]

Comments

For now this is a central repository, when it gets bigger, I'll move the sources related only to the Persecution of Falun Gong to a subpage of that topic. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 23:00, 16 October 2009 (UTC)