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Best-selling Ottawa author Denise Chong's Egg on Mao: The Story of An Ordinary Man Who Defaced An Icon and Unmasked A Dictatorship looks at a single act of defiance by a Chinese small town bus mechanic.
When Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, threw paint-filled eggs at Mao's official portrait in Beijing's Tiananmen Square during the 1989 student protests and massacre, got arrested, spent nine years in prison, was released and later escaped to Canada where he lives in Calgary today as an activist, best-selling Ottawa author Denise Chong says he unmasked human rights.
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Chong weighs nobility of dissent against China's repressive regime
Best-selling Ottawa author Denise Chong's Egg on Mao: The Story of An Ordinary Man Who Defaced An Icon and Unmasked A Dictatorship looks at a single act of defiance by a Chinese small town bus mechanic.
When Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, threw paint-filled eggs at Mao's official portrait in Beijing's Tiananmen Square during the 1989 student protests and massacre, got arrested, spent nine years in prison, was released and later escaped to Canada where he lives in Calgary today as an activist, best-selling Ottawa author Denise Chong says he unmasked human rights.
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