Messing with Mao

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Dissent, imprisonment and escape -- one man's survival story

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October 16, 2009

title_of_book:

Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

autho_of_book:

Denise Chong

publisher_of_book:

Random House

published_date:

2009

price_of_book:

$32.95

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Denise Chong documents the story of Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, imprisoned for thumbing his nose at Mao in her latest book. Chong chats with Meagan Perry in this book lounge interview.

In 1989 Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, joined in with the student protests in China's Tiananmen Square. Weeks into the demonstration he and two friends launched egg shells full of paint at the portrait of Chairman Mao that presides over Tiananmen. From then on they were imprisoned and harassed by Chinese authorities for their crime. After serving 11 of a 16 year sentence Lu Decheng escaped to Canada. Denise Chong documents his story in her latest book Egg On Mao.

Denise Chong chats with rabble.ca's Meagan Perry in this radio book lounge interview.

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Meagan Perry is the rabble podcast network's Executive Producer.

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Messing with Mao

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