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Egg on Mao

A Story of Love, Hope and Defiance

August 30, 2011 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9780307355805
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Description

Denise Chong, the beloved author of The Concubine's Children, tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of human rights to this day.

Despite his family's impeccable Communist roots, Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, grew up intuiting all that was wrong with Mao's China. As a young man he believes truth and decency mattered, only to learn that preserving the Chairman's legacy mattered more.

Lu's story reads like Shakespearean drama, peppered with defiance, love and betrayal. His steadfast refusal to acquiesce comes to a head, but not an end, with his infamous defacing of Mao's portrait during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square.

About this Author

DENISE CHONG is the author of the family memoir The Concubine's Children; The Girl in the Picture, a story of the napalm girl from the Vietnam War; and Egg on Mao, a portrayal of human rights in China. She worked in the public service at the Department of Finance and was the senior economic advisor in the Prime Minister's Office of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In 2013, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She lives with her family in Ottawa.

ISBN: 9780307355805
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2011-08-30

Reviews

Praise for Egg on Mao:

"Extraordinary . . . useful, timely and devastating . . . as insightful about everyday China as anything I have read. . . . A coming of age memoir, a suspenseful action tale and a prison documentary--all of them handled with astonishing adroitness." --John Fraser, Literary Review of Canada

"Chong is a masterful storyteller. . . . Egg on Mao is a lovely and fascinating look at not only China, but also the power of friendship and human decency." --Quill & Quire
 
"Egg on Mao speaks the universal language of human rights." --The Daily News

"Exquisite. . . . This is a gem of a book, strong in its treatment of substance, superb in its expression." --Winnipeg Free Press

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

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