pseudo-religious nativist movement associated with the 1990s rise in qigong practice & all of its associated self-reflective cultural & ethnocentric results.

a lot of this stuff resulted in some confusing "alternative lifestyle & medicine" kookiness that disrupts education & scientific understanding. so when this particular group was banned, (after initially being promoted by officials as healthy exercise & self-discipline) Falun Gong took a really hardline anti-CPC stance, and i think were picked up early on in "the West" as a group to promote.

they run the Shen Yun dance troupes that periodically tour metro areas in the West. It's an anti-communist cult. There's a part in the Shen Yun production where these ninjas with hammer & sickle designs on their tunics pop out and they try to make it seem like they're harvesting the poor apolitical Chinese flow arts practitioners' eyeballs.