Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1582435472 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praise for The Concubine's Children: "Beautiful, haunting and wise, The Concubine's Children lingers in the mind like a portrait one returns to in a family album, and elicits the same mysterious response of love, melancholy and pride." -- "The New York Times Book Review"
She lives with her family in Ottawa.From the Hardcover edition.. Denise Chong is the author of the family memoir The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, a story of the napalm girl from the Vietnam War
Rob Hardy said Bulletins from Tiananmen. When the students took over Tiananmen Square twenty years ago, the world watched with fascination as they gave the first visible protest against the Communist system in China. That the protesters were eventually overcome, and that the system has continued and has prospered, have not erased the memory of the uprising. Since the Com
Lu’s release from prison and subsequent political asylum in Canada made it possible for Denise Chong to share his story of unyielding bravery and defiance.Part biography of a gesture, part testament to the power of the individual, Egg on Mao honors the courage of protest and the remarkable momentum of change.. The hail of 30 paint-filled eggs, cracking and leaking across the towering portrait of Chairman Mao, caught the Tiananmen Square protestors off guard. There was condemnation and confusion. Ultimately labeled a political instigator, Lu and his friends disappeared into the Chinese prison system and were not seen by the public again for almost 15 years. A clash of cheers and jeers accosted the three young men whose collective act defied the dictator who molded their country and their lives.Egg on Mao pivots around that defining moment during the 1989 student protests, focusing on the life of a bus mechanic named Lu Decheng and how his frustrations growing up in a backwater Chinese town under a repressive regime led him to board a train to Beijing with his two friends to join the protests