Abstract
The Lin Biao affair still stands today as one of the most puzzling events in the history of the People's Republic of China. The Cultural Revolution was beginning to quiet down when out of the blue it was announced that the heir apparent had attempted to assassinate the Chairman and that he had fled the country in a plane that crashed in Mongolia, killing him, his wife, Ye Qun, and his son, Lin Liguo. Having once been hailed as a national hero, Lin Biao was overnight denounced as the most vile of people, a Liu Shaoqi-type swindler. Then, five years ago, without any change in the official story, the commemorative stamp bearing Lin Biao's picture was suddenly reissued signifying that he had been reinstated in the pantheon of China's 10 great marshals. The puzzle only gets more peculiar.
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