Lin Piao

British

/ ˈlɪn ˈpjaʊ /

noun

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

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

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

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By contrast, the Ninth Party Congress, in the process of approving a new constitution, specifically named Defense Minister Lin Piao as Mao's heir.

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Hua did not achieve true national prominence until 1971�the year in which Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow Mao.

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One was an unusual portrait of Mao's long-missing heir apparent, Lin Piao.

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