Intentions
Upon Lu Decheng’s release after serving nine years in prison, Chong was contacted by an editor at Random House Canada, who wanted her to commission a book on human rights in China. Seeing how changes in China have taken place so rapidly since 1989, Chong wanted to write about the issues of democracy and human rights, topics that are less prevalent today among China’s international trading partners. Speaking in an interview, she said: “In the unseemly rush of the West to do business there, human rights lost its profile? There never is a more urgent narrative than human rights and democracy in China.” Chong saw the need to portray another aspect of Chinese society. “I saw a personal story about human rights, set in a state that bans dissent and protest, as a chance to understand the morality that is at the core of being human.” For Chong, Egg on Mao was written with the intention of helping Westerners to better understand the issue of democracy and human rights in China.
Read more about this topic: Egg On Mao: The Story Of An Ordinary Man Who Defaced An Icon And Unmasked A Dictatorship
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“Good intentions are met with good recompense.”
—Chinese proverb.