An 80-year-old Woman Awakens 20,000 Chinese People

A strong belief in truth, and a wish to help others, motivated an elderly woman to dedicate her life to a mission of “waking people up” to the nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and persuading them to reject it.

By July 20, 2012, Zhu Yufang, an 80-year-old volunteer for the Tuidang movement in Melbourne, Australia, estimates that she has convinced 20,135 people to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations since the movement began in late 2004. Tuidang means “quit the Party” or “renounce the Party” in Chinese.

The Tuidang began soon after the publication by The Epoch Times of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, known as Jiuping in Chinese, first as an editorial series and then as a book.

Mrs. Zhu realized the truth about the CCP after reading Jiuping and immediately quit the CCP and the Communist Youth League.

Fourteen years ago Mrs. Zhu began to practice Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese spiritual practice. She cleared up serious health problems and looks much younger than her 80 years. She started telling people across Melbourne about Falun Gong, but had not yet quit the CCP.

When asked why she began convincing Chinese people to quit the CCP, Mrs. Zhu explained how she was educated in China to believe that the CCP was the savior of the nation, which convinced her to join the Party and the Communist Youth League. After the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre of student protesters, she began to lose faith in the CCP—and then it began to persecute Falun Gong.

After Mrs. Zhu read Jiuping, she said she was awakened to the CCP’s true nature. “In the past, we were foolishly loyal to the CCP. The CCP has and still does persecute the kind-hearted, makes up propaganda to turn black into white, and even fabricated the Tiananmen Self-Immolation incident to slander Falun Gong as well as criminally harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit. The CCP has committed countless evils, all of which are intolerable to the heavens, so it will be disintegrated.”

Mrs. Zhu felt the need to expose the atrocities taking place in China and wake Chinese people up to the nature of the regime. “I must rush, before the CCP’s disintegration, to tell the truth behind the CCP to Communist Party members, Communist Youth League members, and Young Pioneers (a CCP organization for children), to save them from being punished along with the CCP.”

Armed with her lunchbox and her cart loaded with literature about the persecution. “Daily, I try to tell every Chinese I meet whether I am walking or on the bus.”

Mrs. Zhu believes the number of people quitting the CCP is rising rapidly because people are becoming clearer on the true nature of the CCP, and they no longer fear it. She shared some of her more memorable experiences:

One time, while “clarifying the truth”—meaning to tell people about the persecution of Falun Gong—near the Chinese consulate, she helped a Chinese woman in her thirties to quit the CCP. Then, a while later the same woman returned, seeking help for her sister to quit the CCP. She told Mrs. Zhu that her sister wanted to quit the CCP but she did not have time to go to the center; Mrs. Zhu took her name down and later entered it on the Internet database at tuidang.dajiyuan.com

Another time Mrs. Zhu was working outside of the Chinese consulate, a Chinese man walking into the consulate treated her very negatively. She still greeted him warmly and when he came out, Mrs. Zhu told him, “I hope you have a great future and I don’t mean anything else; it’s really just for your own good.” The man calmed down and asked her what was the use in quitting the CCP. After Mrs. Zhu told him the reasons why, he was convinced, and renounced the Communist Youth League.

Chinese tourists pass by Mrs. Zhu’s stations in various areas throughout Melbourne. Some are unpleasant toward her. While explaining the nature of Falun Gong and the CCP’s persecution to a group of tourists, one of them who looked like a Chinese official told Mrs. Zhu that he already knew about the CCP and told her he would not quit—and walked away. 

Mrs. Zhu continued to talk to him. “I didn’t want to give up, so I followed and talked more about the corruption of the CCP and then he said, ‘I know.’ Later he became angry and said, ‘I know what the CCP is, and how Falun Gong is persecuted.’ I asked him to quit and he agreed to quit with his pen name.”

At the end of each day, she tallies the number of people she convinced to quit. After seven years she estimates that she has convinced 20,000 people to renounce the Chinese Communist Party.

Original Chinese version.

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