For thirteen years a “horseback anti-cult police squad” has visited herders who have never met a “cult.” Why?
Xie Jiao Organizations
Yet Another Xie Jiao: Crackdown on an Offshoot of “Human Universal Science”
The police believed they had eradicated the Qigong movement led by Zhang Weixiang, who died in 2006. But the “Datong Base Faction” continued to flourish.
Once Popular, Deng Haipeng’s “Soul Shaping” Is Liquidated as a Xie Jiao
The leader of a self-help group turned new religious movement was sentenced to seventeen years and six months in jail and his organization was banned.
Campaign Against “Cults” Launched in Lhasa—But What Is a “Cult” in Tibet?
Tibet was never known as a hotbed of “xie jiao.” They may have achieved some success during the pandemic—or the CCP wants to label dissident Buddhists as “cultists.”
“Fatti nuovi” nella persecuzione religiosa in Cina: il dopo-COVID e le conseguenze della Conferenza nazionale sulla religione del dicembre 2021
Una risposta del direttore di “Bitter Winter” a quesiti posti da avvocati italiani su come è cambiata la situazione della religione in Cina tra il 2020 e il 2024.
China Discovers a New “Cult,” “Fan Circle Culture”
The rhetoric of “xie jiao” and “brainwashing” is used to crack down on fan clubs of sport and entertainment celebrities
China, You May Be Pro-CCP But If You Organize Independently You Are Still a “Cult”
The story of a female college student driven to suicide sheds a light on the crackdown on “political xie jiao.”
Taiwan’s Yiguandao Believers Arrested as “Cultists” when Visiting China
On December 26, Taipei’s Mainland Affairs Council warned that the anti-xie-jiao Article 300 of the Criminal Code is now enforced against Yiguandao although it is not in any official xie jiao list.
Anhui: Bringing Opera to Villages—and Anti-Religious Propaganda
The “Opera in Ten Thousand Villages” project is used as yet another tool for propaganda for the CCP and against “xie jiao and illegal religion.”
Massive Campaign Against “Xie Jiao and Illegal Religion” Targets Children in Guangxi
Families of believers complain that lessons in fact teach “scientific” atheism to primary and middle school pupils.