Unbroken: The Untold Story of Shen Yun

Author/Contributor(s):	Jekielek, Jan; Lance, Steve
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Date:	12/1/2026
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

From its humble beginnings in the sunlit rehearsal halls of a secluded campus in upstate New York to the world's most prestigious stages, Shen Yun Performing Arts has—over the last twenty years—become an unstoppable global cultural phenomenon and a personification of the American Dream. With eight touring companies performing hundreds of sold-out shows each year, it has introduced millions of people to the beauty of traditional Chinese culture. But what began as a quiet artistic mission—to revive a five-thousand-year-old civilization the Chinese Communist Party tried to erase—quickly exploded into a high-stakes global confrontation. As Shen Yun's audiences grew, so too did Beijing's campaign of transnational repression to silence it: bomb threats to theaters, sabotage, intimidation of performers' families, and coordinated smear campaigns—all part of an effort that reached deeper and deeper into American soil and exploited the very freedoms the Party seeks to undermine. Today, despite years of interference, Shen Yun stands as one of the Chinese Communist Party's most formidable and unlikely adversaries.

Drawing on firsthand accounts, investigative reporting by journalists Steve Lance and Jan Jekielek, and never-before-told stories, Unbroken: The Untold Story of Shen Yun reveals how an artistic and spiritual yearning became an international struggle over history, identity, and freedom itself. An epic of faith, sacrifice, and artistic courage, Unbroken serves as a powerful reminder that beauty itself can become an act of resistance.