{"id":349,"date":"2025-03-19T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/?page_id=349"},"modified":"2025-03-19T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:07:38","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 21%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Leeshai Lemish<\/strong> has been with Shen Yun for 18 years. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Chinese history and language from Pomona College, California, and his master\u2019s in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He has spent extended periods studying, working, and conducting research throughout East Asia, and has authored articles on Chinese current affairs in both English and Chinese. He joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as an MC when the company was founded in 2006, and has since emceed close to two thousand performances with the company, taking the stage with Shen Yun at prestigious theaters such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, the London Coliseum, Tokyo Opera City, and many others worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his performance role, he has tracked and documented on his website over 100 cases of the Chinese Communist Party and its agents trying to sabotage Shen Yun internationally. He has testified on transnational repression in front of Congress, has been a featured guest on television and radio shows around the world, and is the host of the podcast Shen Yun Voices.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><span class=\"frame-outer  wp-image-350 size-full\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"415\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LL_New_CROP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-350 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LL_New_CROP.jpg 521w, https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LL_New_CROP-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeshai Lemish has been with Shen Yun for 18 years. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Chinese history and language from Pomona College, California, and his master\u2019s in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He has spent extended periods studying, working, and conducting research throughout East Asia, and has authored articles on Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}