Peng Pai

In this Chinese name, the family name is Peng.
Peng Pai
彭湃
Born(1896-10-22)October 22, 1896
Haifeng, Guangdong, Qing Dynasty
DiedAugust 30, 1929(1929-08-30) (aged 32)
Shanghai, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party (1921 - August 30, 1929)
Kuomintang (1924-1927)

Peng Pai (Chinese: 彭湃; pinyin: Péng Pài; Wade–Giles: P'êng2 P'ai4; October 22, 1896 – August 30, 1929) was a pioneer of the Chinese agrarian movement and a leading revolutionary in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during its early years.[1] He was born in Haifeng, Guangdong Province, China.[2] Peng Pai was one of the few Chinese intellectuals who were aware in the early 1920s that peasantry and land issues caused the most critical problems for Chinese society. He believed that the success of any revolution in China must depend on the peasants as its base foundation.[3][4] After his death, Peng was praised by Mao Zedong as "the king of peasant movement".[5]

  1. ^ Hofheinz, Roy Jr. (1977). The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-08391-1.
    In the Preface, the author called Peng Pai "the father of Chinese rural communism".
  2. ^ Pang, Yong-Pil (July 1975). "Peng Pai: From Landlord to Revolutionary". Modern China. 1 (3). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications USA: 297–322. doi:10.1177/009770047500100303. ISSN 0097-7004. S2CID 144289018.
  3. ^ Ip, Hung-Yok (2009). Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949: Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates. Florence KY: Routledge. pp. 54–66. ISBN 978-0-415-54656-0.
  4. ^ Terrill, Ross (1999). Mao: A Biography. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. pp. 98–102. ISBN 0-8047-2921-2.
  5. ^ "彭湃" [Peng pai]. The central people's government of the People's Republic of China (in Chinese). October 15, 2008. Retrieved 2020-11-21.