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47-5276 BP605 2009-18042 CIP Tong, James W. Revenge of the forbidden city: the suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005. Oxford, 2009. 282p bibl index afp ISBN 9780195377286, $49.95
Falun Gong was founded in 1992. By 1994, the organization's linking of qigong (an ancient Chinese healing art involving controlled breathing and movement and meditation) with Buddhist-based religious study and its rapid growth in followers...