re: Religion: Falun Gong (Charles Ridley, US)

Charles Ridley writes:

I will be starting my survey of the latest Chinese elementary school readers in a couple of days (being impeded at the moment by the necessity of performing a “commercial” translation), and will check carefully for any references to the Falun Gong. In other textbooks, I see “Love for science” coupled with condemnation of “superstition,” but have not seen another specific attack on the Falun Gong except for the one cited in my presentation.

I will let you all know as soon as I have more evidence.

JE comments: I look forward to your findings. For those who missed Charles’s paper, “Attitudes Towards Science in China” (posted on 29 October), it can be accessed at:

http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/wais/cgi-bin/?p=40223