The Chinese Communist Party and Qigong

Qigong was a practice that everyone kind of knew. The Chinese communists wanted to modernize the country, right? But also huge mass of the base of the party was the peasantry. And so they sort of had to figure out these contradictions, right? To a lot of present practices, oftentimes superstitious practices and just like modernizing impulses. So I mean, they were like actively promoting it.