Egg on Mao : the story of an ordinary man who defaced an icon and unmasked a dictatorship / Denise Chong.

On May 23, 1989, as student protests raged, Lu Decheng and two other men hurled 30 paint-filled eggs at the immense portrait of Mao Zedong that dominates Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His poli-art stunt stranded Lu in prison for almost a decade, cost him his wife and daughter, and led to his eventual defection to Canada. While hoping to bring true democracy and to unmask the repression of Mao's reign, Lu learned that in China, preserving the Chairman's legacy mattered more.