Tiananmen Square, Egg Wash and Tank Man: Reflections after 25 years

AP Photo/Jeff Widener, courtesy The Atlantic‘s terrific photo essay ‘Tiananmen Square, Then and Now‘

by Ruki 

- on 06/05/2014 

In 2009, Canadian author Denise Chong published a book called “Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship”. The main subject of the book is a friend of mine, exiled Chinese dissident Lu Decheng. Our friendship was when I was a free man and he was in a Thai prison. We have not met for around eight years, but I look forward to see him someday. This is a modest attempt to introduce Lu to my other friends & colleagues, to remember the 1989 prodemocracy movement in China and appreciate the spirit and courage of Lu and many other dissidents, especially students, who did what they believed in and paid heavy prices.

Tiananmen Square, Egg Wash and Tank Man Reflections After 25 Years by Thavam Ratna