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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The famed Little Red Book of Mao quotations has virtually disappeared, and Mao himself has denounced the personality cult that surrounded him as a sinister trick of his late, disgraced Defense Minister Lin Piao.

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Significantly, he went to Peking just after former Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow Mao in 1971.

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Defense Minister Lin Piao, who had been formally named Mao's successor, allegedly attempted to assassinate Mao and take supreme power for himself.

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So far, nobody knows who, beyond the ghosts of Lin Piao and Confucius, are the real targets of the new campaign.

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

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