Hong Xiuquan, who led the Taiping Rebellion, may appear as the quintessential xie jiao leader. Yet, he was praised by Mao, and is still honored in China.
Xie Jiao Organizations
Create Abundance/Spiritual Growth: Xie Jiao or Spy Ring?
Several CCP media attacked a movement that in Canada, in connection with a mysterious murder, had come under suspicion of being a CCP front.
Former “Anti-Cult” Top Bureaucrat Peng Bo Is in Jail
As Bitter Winter predicted in a previous article, expulsion from the Chinese Communist Party has been followed by arrest and prosecution.
Download Falun Gong Books, Get Five Years in Jail
Appellate decision against two Shanxi women confirms that under Article 300 possession of printed material of a xie jiao is enough to go to jail.
Legacy: Lifespring Offshoot in Trouble in China
Death of a venture capitalist in Beijing after a Legacy course evidences the CCP’s idiosyncratic approach to the question of the xie jiao
Peng Bo: Top “Anti-Cult” Bureaucrat Expelled from the CCP
Peng Bo was accused of being ineffective and dishonest, and practicing “superstitious activities” himself.
Supreme Court Asks for Heavier Repression of Illegal Religion in Rural Areas
The new “Opinions” on how courts should works in the countryside, of which we offer a full translation, calls for a crackdown on unauthorized religions.
Anti-Einstein Relativity Research Association Banned As a “Cult”
The Beijing-based group, whose theories were once supported by Mao, was liquidated on June 30, after New Ager Guo Ping was appointed its Vice President.
“Deprogrammed Cultists” Compelled to Sing “Glory to the Communist Party”
Celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party also reached the centers where members of xie jiao are “transformed”—or else.
35 Years Ago: The Tragedy of the Great Sage Dynasty
Depicted as the quintessential xie jiao, the movement founded in 1986 was eradicated in 1990 and its leader executed. Why do Chinese media remember it now?