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Mao once told Hua, his designated successor, “with you in charge, I’m at ease.” Even with the chairman’s endorsement, Hua had to take down a group of Maoist leaders known as the “gang of four” to secure his position. (One of those four was Mao’s widow, Jiang Qing.) He didn’t stay in charge long. He had already begun to lose control when Deng Xiaoping, an influential revolutionary veteran, successfully schemed to supplant him in 1978. Hua stepped down as party chairman in 1981.

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