P'eng

In the meantime, P'eng's Third Army Corps had captured Ch'angsha on July 29 and proclaimed a soviet government of three provinces (Kiangsi, Hunan, and Hupeh), with Li Li-san as its chairman in absentia.

P’ENG TEH-HUAI (c. 1900– ), Chinese revolutionist and Communist military leader, was born of a peasant family in the central Chinese province of Hunan and in the hsien (county) that was the birthplace of Mao Tse-tung. A participant in the Northern Expedition (1926–27) led by Chiang Kai-shek to unite China under a single government, P’eng joined the Communists in 1928 and quickly became a top military commander in the forces led by Chu Teh and Mao.

Lin P’ei's mother warned him that though P’eng P’ai had no need to fear starvation, the Lin family was not so fortunate. P’eng claims that he bought some time against this threat by a Tom Sawyeresque ruse.

P’eng Shu-tse lived through these tumultuous events, and, during a great part of them, not as a spectator but as a political leader and strategist of the working-class movement.

P’eng P’ai was able to return to Hai-feng county on the heels of the Eastern Expedition at the end of February 1925 and to revive his shattered movement there. Membership grew rapidly to a reported 70,000, with 12,000 in neighbouring Lu-feng county, but Ch’en Chiung-ming’s troops recovered these counties in the summer and again the movement was driven underground.

Gradually Mao’s military forces, and his prestige in the CCP, began to grow. First a column of CCP soldiers led by Chu Teh, then a rebel KMT unit led by P’eng Te-Huai, and finally two bandit gangs merged with Mao’s forces.

"Calli, hon, it's Mrs. P’eng." I smooth my hair, swing the door open, find Mrs. P’eng, her rounded belly, and Jinsong.[…] Mrs. P’eng asks if I'm feeling better, says they're headed to the county fair and wouldn't I like to come?