Egg on MaoBy: Denise Chong Denise Chong, the beloved author of The Concubines Children, tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of human rights to this day. Despite his familys impeccable Communist roots, Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, grew up intuiting all that was wrong with Maos China. As a young man he believes truth and decency mattered, only to learn that