Showing results for "Lin Piao"

• a variation of Lin Biao.

Lin Piao

British  

/ ˈlɪn ˈpjaʊ /

noun

1. 1908–71, Chinese Communist general and statesman. He became minister of defence (1959) and second in rank to Mao Tse-tung (1966). He fell from grace and is reported to have died in an air crash while attempting to flee to the Soviet Union

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Lin Piao

Mao's version of the downfall of Lin Piao to her admiration for Garbo and Chaplin.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1971 China's institutions had just begun to recover from the dislocations caused by the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution when they were again shaken by the Lin Piao affair.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the campaign was broadened by linking Confucius to former Defense Minister Lin Piao who died after an anti-Mao coup attempt in 1971.

From Time Magazine Archive

There has also been a continuing editorial onslaught on the surviving supporters of Lin Piao, Mao's disgraced former heir, who was killed in a plane crash in Mongolia in 1971.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wang has also been credited with bringing down Defense Minister Lin Piao in 1971.

From Time Magazine Archive