Yu Dongyue | |||||||||||
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| 喻东岳 | |||||||||||
| Born | December 4, 1967 | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | Xiangtan Normal College | ||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, photographer | ||||||||||
| Known for | 1989 Mao portrait vandalism incident | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 喻東嶽 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 喻东岳 | ||||||||||
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Yu Dongyue (Chinese: 喻东岳; Hanyu Pinyin: Yù Dōngyuè) was born in Liuyang, a city in Hunan province of China on December 4, 1967. He is the former arts editor of Liuyang Daily. In the Tiananmen protests of 1989, following a plan made by his friend Yu Zhijian, he and Lu Decheng threw eggshells full of paint at a portrait of China’s political figure Mao Zedong. Yu Dongyue was given a 20-year prison sentence for "sabotage" and "counter-revolutionary propaganda”. He had become badly disturbed psychologically. He was also criticized for his "very avant-garde views on art."[1] He also had been subjected to various physical tortures because of “reactionary statements” he and his friends made about officials.[2]