Beginning with a paint-filled egg, hurled upwards toward the giant oil painting of Mao that hung in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Denise Chong's Egg on Mao is the heartbreaking, yet inspiring, true story of Lu Decheng — a Chinese man whose act of vandalism helped to unmask a violent dictatorship — acting as a humanizing snapshot of one person's quest for change that is easily of the best non-fiction releases of the year.Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Egg on Mao, by Denise Chong
Beginning with a paint-filled egg, hurled upwards toward the giant oil painting of Mao that hung in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Denise Chong's Egg on Mao is the heartbreaking, yet inspiring, true story of Lu Decheng — a Chinese man whose act of vandalism helped to unmask a violent dictatorship — acting as a humanizing snapshot of one person's quest for change that is easily of the best non-fiction releases of the year.
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