The Wheel Begins to Turn
A quiet man from Changchun taught a practice, and a hundred million sat down to learn. A complete 18,000-word book, free and yours to keep. Not a sample chapter.
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They began arriving before the sun came up, in twos and threes at first, then in a tide that had no visible beginning and no visible end. By seven in the morning on April 25, 1999, the pavement along Fuyou Street, hard against the western wall of Zhongnanhai — the walled compound where China's most powerful men lived and worked — was full from curb to curb, and it stayed that way, without a single incident, until well past midnight. Ten thousand people. Some accounts say more. They stood in loose rows, facing the wall, facing the gate, facing nothing in particular except the quiet fact of their own presence. Many had traveled through the night on trains from Tianjin, from Shandong, from as far as Heilongjiang, after word spread that police in Tianjin had beaten practitioners who tried peacefully to ask why a magazine article slandering their practice had been allowed to stand unanswered, and why some among them had then been detained. They had come to Beijing the way Chinese citizens had done for centuries when a wrong needed to reach the ears of those who governed — to petition, quietly and in person, at the gate of power itself.
9 movements, carrying the whole life of Li Hongzhi from beginning to enduring memory.
- The Ten Thousand Who Stood in the Rain
- A Child Beneath the Manchurian Sky
- The Masters Who Came in Secret
- Changchun, and the Fa Made Public
- The Book That Held the Cosmos
- A Teacher Follows His Students West
- The Night the Lamps Went Out
- The Practice That Would Not Die
- The Doorway
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Lives that walk beside Li Hongzhi — chosen for their likeness, not their fame.
