The tragedy of Lin Biao : riding the tiger during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971
The Lin Biao affair, which saw the Minister of Defence dramatically rise to become Mao Zedong's designated successor at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 and, even more dramatically, die in a plane crash while fleeing his country in September 1971, remains the least understood of all Chinese Communist Party elite conflicts of the Maoist era. Despite the pivotal importance of Lin's rise and fall in the history of contemporary China, his career has received little scholarly attention
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, ©1996