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  Long March Leaders - Marshal Peng Dehuai
Peng Dehuai (pronounced Pung Dew-why) was born in 1898 in Xiang County of Hunan Province.
Peng met the enemy head-on in frontal assaults and fought with such fury that again and again he wiped them out.
Peng ultimately became the Commander in Chief of the Chinese Forces in Korea against the United Nations Forces.
www.paulnoll.com /China/Long-March/Long-March-Peng-Dehuai.html   (527 words)

  
  Peng Dehuai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peng Dehuai (pronounced Pung Dew-why) was born in 1898 in Xiang County of Hunan Province.
Peng was exiled from his family home at the age of nine.
Peng was forced to flee Chiang Kai-shek's purge in 1927 and joined the Communist Party of China, participating in the Long March.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peng_Dehuai   (925 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Peng Dehuai
Peng was exiled from his family home in Xiangtan County, Hunan province at the age of nine.
Peng went on to serve with distinction behind Japanese lines in North China, and during the late stages of the Chinese Civil War he led the 1st Field Army in its conquest of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai provinces.
He was the supreme commander of Chinese volunteers during the Korean War, the Defense Minister, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, and was made a marshal of the People's Liberation Army in 1955.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Peng_Dehuai   (405 words)

  
 Peng Dehuai on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He held various command positions in the Red Army, and in 1934-35 he joined with Mao Zedong and Zhu De in the long march.
He was minister of defense from 1954 to 1959, when, after criticizing the Great Leap Forward, he was replaced by Lin Biao.
Peng's rivalry with Mao made him an early target of the cultural revolution, and in 1967 he disappeared from public view after being arrested and losing his governmental posts.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PengD1ehu.asp   (341 words)

  
 Peng Dehuai - Maoist Wiki - a Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peng Dehuai was born in 1898 in Xiangtan County of Hunan Province.
Peng was forced to flee Chiang Kai-shek's purge in 1927 and joined the Communist Party of China, participating in the Long March.
Peng Dehuai and Lin Biao were generally reckoned to be the Red Army's best battlefield commanders.
maoist.wikia.com /wiki/Peng_Dehuai   (1299 words)

  
 Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages--Nine Marshals
Peng Dehuai (below right, 1898-1974), who commanded the People's Volunteers during the Korean War, was one of Mao's most vocal critics during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960).
Due to these criticisms, which Mao mistakenly interpreted as part of a conspiracy against him, Peng was replaced as Minister of Defense by Lin Biao and thrown in prison.
Peng Dehuai, Memoirs of a Chinese Marshal—The Autobiographical Notes of Peng Dehuai (1898-1974) (Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1984)
www.iisg.nl /~landsberger/pla2.html   (533 words)

  
 The Inferno of People’s War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peng Dehuai was criticized throughout the 1960s as one who believed that "weapons decide everything." We have no way of knowing whether this criticism was accurate or whether the attacks were politically motivated rhetoric.
While Peng Dehuai referred to the militia as a "heap of gooseflesh" when it was untrained and ill-organized, he advocated maintaining a large force of trained reserves as militia to be relied on in time of war.
Peng saw morale of soldiers as crucial to China's national defense, and he advocated a reliance on her large population to achieve overwhelming numerical superiority.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1984/mar-apr/waller.html   (8522 words)

  
 Hundred Regiments Offensive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hundred Regiments Offensive (Chinese: 百团大战) (August 20, 1940 - December 5, 1940) was a major campaign of the Communist Party of China's Red Army commanded by Peng Dehuai against the Imperial Japanese Army in Central China.
Peng was criticized by Mao for revealing the number of the Communist forces to the Kuomintang.
During the Cultural Revolution, Peng's action was one of the pretexts used by the Gang of Four to led to his downfall.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Hundred_Regiments   (668 words)

  
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Peng was a close friend of Liu Shaoqi, the key victim in Mao Zedong's purge during the Cultural Revolution.
In response, Peng Zhen and Liu Ren conducted investigatons based on the spirit of "seeking truth from facts." In January 1964, the Municipal Committee annouced that the metropolitan city basically followed the literary and artistic line of the CCP Center (i.e., Mao).
Peng passed away in April 1997, Lu in May 1996.) Before the meeting ended on 26 May, Deng Tuo had committed suicide on 18 May. Other associates of Peng Zhen were dismissed from their official posts and the Beijing party committee and municipal government were reorganized around Maoists, headed by Li Xuefeng.
mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/yick/yick.htm   (7505 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Cultural Revolution
The attack on Peng was also combined with an attack on the Soviet Union and the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Beijing Mayor Peng Zhen, a supporter of Wu Han, established a committee studying the recent publication and emphasizing that the criticism had gone too far, but denunciations, whether public or under the table, came from Jiang Qing and Lin Biao.
Later, Peng Dehuai was brought to Beijing to be publicly displayed and ridiculed; he was then purged.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Cultural_revolution   (6326 words)

  
 Peng Dehuai
During the Korean War, Peng commanded the Chinese army that assisted North Korea, and he signed the armistice at the war's end in 1953.
Peng's criticism of the Great Leap Forward, Mao's failed economic and social plan to increase economic and industrial production, may have been the reason for his abrupt dismissal in 1959.
Peng died in prison in 1974 after being denied critical medical treatment.
members.fortunecity.com /stalinmao/China/dehuai/dehuai.html   (229 words)

  
 E-ASPAC
In short, Peng was chosen because of his "virtue" (i.e., proven political loyalty and reliability), "ability" (i.e., the capacity to mobilize people and cadres for the political task of fighting enemies and for national reconstruction), "seniority" (i.e., having joined the Party in 1923), and his service to Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong.
In response, Peng Zhen and Liu Ren conducted investigations based on the spirit of "seeking truth from facts." In January 1964, the Municipal Committee announced that the metropolitan city basically followed the literary and artistic line of the CCP Center (i.e., Mao).
Peng passed away in April 1997, Lu in May 1996.) Before the meeting ended on 26 May, Deng Tuo had committed suicide on 18 May. [57] Other associates of Peng Zhen were dismissed from their official posts and the Beijing party committee and municipal government were reorganized around Maoists, headed by Li Xuefeng.
mcel.pacificu.edu /easpac/2003/yick.php3   (8049 words)

  
 Eyewitness 22: Fall of Hamhung
Peng Dehuai attends the party in frayed and patched-up fatigues while Kim Il Sung wears a white jacket covered with medals and blue pants with broad red stripes.
Peng's original plan was to regroup the 13th Army Group to south of the Taedong River while the US X Corps in the east front is eliminated by the 9th Army Group.
Peng Dehuai does not blame Song or his officers; instead, he blames Mao Zedong for the failure of his troops.
www.tparents.org /Library/Religion/Cta/Korea-J/eyewit22.htm   (6152 words)

  
 Korean War FAQ Korean War History Korean War History Korean War FAQ
Peng Dehuai was so impressed with 38th army, that he said: "Long Live 38th Army" (38 Jun Wansui) in his congratulation telegram.
Peng Dehuai, following Mao's guidelines, ordered 6 PLA armies and 3 NK divisions to crack the UN defense line at 38th.
In view of this, Peng Dehuai ordered his forces to begin defensive maneuver starting from Feb. 17 in order to gain two months time, waiting for the second batch of PVA forces, the 3rd Army Group and 19th Army Group to arrive at the 38th parallel.
www.centurychina.com /history/faq3.shtml   (1945 words)

  
 Peng Dehuai
Peng Dehuai (1898 - 1974) joined the Communist Party of China in 1927 and participated in the Long March.
He was commander of Chinese forces during the Korean War.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Peng_Dehuai.html   (100 words)

  
 Peng Dehuai --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Wade-Giles P'eng Te-huai military leader, one of the greatest in Chinese communist history, and minister of national defense of China from 1954 until 1959, when he was removed for criticizing the military and economic policies of Mao Zedong.
In a play, Wu supposedly had used allegorical devices to lampoon Mao and laud the deposed former minister of defense, Peng Dehuai.
By the end of 1952, 1,200,000 Chinese were engaged in the war under the command of Peng Dehuai (P'eng Te-huai).
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059064   (592 words)

  
 Korean War FAQ Korean War History Korean War History Korean War FAQ
Peng Dehuai was so impressed with 38th army, that he said: "Long Live 38th Army" (38 Jun Wansui) in his congratulation telegram.
Peng Dehuai, following Mao's guidelines, ordered 6 PLA armies and 3 NK divisions to crack the UN defense line at 38th.
In view of this, Peng Dehuai ordered his forces to begin defensive maneuver starting from Feb. 17 in order to gain two months time, waiting for the second batch of PVA forces, the 3rd Army Group and 19th Army Group to arrive at the 38th parallel.
centurychina.com /history/faq3.shtml   (1945 words)

  
 phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - Chinese Story - Zhu De - The commander-in-chief (7)
Peng Dehuai (´^¼wÃh), who later became the deputy commander-in-cheif of the Red Army, was born in 1898 at a village in Xiangtan county (´ð¼æ¿¤), about 20 kilometers east of Shaoshancun (»à¤s§ø), the birth place of Mao Zedong.
Peng Dehuai was a diligent soldier and was admitted to the Military Academy in Hunan and later another military school in Nanchang («n©÷) in Jiangxi province (¦¿¦è¬Ù).
In the meeting Mao Zedong suggested that the 5th Red Army under the command of Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan should defend Jinggangshan.
www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=3494&t=3476   (667 words)

  
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Forty-four years ago, China's respected defense minister, Peng Dehuai, tried to bring to the attention of other senior leaders the fact that millions of people around the country were starving to death as a result of misguided economic policies.
So he and his followers branded Peng an "anti-Party element," and the blunt, able Peng was put under house arrest in a village outside Beijing.
None of the doctors or officials possessed the stature of the revolutionary war veteran Peng, and they must have feared the consequences of raising an alarm on the eve of a key National People's Congress and change in leadership.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/opeds/2003/kaufman_sars_wp_042803.htm   (1610 words)

  
 Peng, - Find The Best Peng, Resources Online
Resume, CV and Research Interests of Dr. Kaipeng Peng, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
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In Jeff Ooi's blog, he wrote "Think-tank Khoo Kay Peng, who has been having Khoo Kay Peng: Khoo is an economics graduate from the University of Malaya.
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 John Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mao Zedong was threatened by the parallel to his dismissal of General Peng Dehuai, a fellow survivor of the Long March, who dared question Mao¹s conduct of the Great Leap Forward in a private letter.
Peng Dehuai was one of the survivors of the Long March to rise to prominence.
Peng's challenge to Mao's handling of the Great Leap Forward resulted in swift purge, and he was labeled as the head of the "anti-Party group." In 1965 he was sent to work in the "third line" construction in Southwest China and died in 1974, near the end of the Cultural Revolution.
www.prin.edu /college/china/about/papers/williams3.shtml   (2111 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com | Visions of China: Lushan | 9/27/99
Minister of Defense Peng Dehuai and several supporters spoke up against the Chairman's twin follies: the people's communes and the Great Leap Forward.
Peng and his allies soon lost their posts.
Peng Dehuai dared to speak bluntly, and others criticized the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward and the creation of the people's communes.
www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/99/0927/lushan.html   (360 words)

  
 Cultural Revolution - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Beijing Mayor Peng Zhen, a supporter of Wu Han, set up a committee studying the recent publication and emphasizing that the criticism had gone too far.
Later, Peng Dehuai was brought to Beijing to be publicly displayed and purged at the same time.
In the Fifth Plenum of the Eleventh CCP Congress held in 1980, Liu Shaoqi, Peng Zhen and many others purged during the cultural revolution were politically rehabilitated.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Cultural_Revolution   (4718 words)

  
 Peng Dehuai - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
P?ng D?hu?i (Traditional ChineseT. Chinese: 彭德懷, Simplified ChineseS. Chinese: 彭德怀, Wade-Giles: P'eng Te-huai) (October 24, 1898 - November 29 1974) was a prominent Communist Party of ChinaChinese Communist military leader.
During Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)World War II Peng served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Communist forces and coordinated the Hundred Regiments Campaign.
He was the supreme commander of Chinese volunteers during the Korean War, the Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of ChinaDefense Minister, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, and was made a marshal of the People's Liberation Army in 1955.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Peng_Dehuai   (496 words)

  
 Cultural Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
According to the article (solicited by Jiang Qing at Mao’s request), the play was a veiled criticism of Mao for having engineered Peng's fall.
Mao arranged for the review to be widely circulated and by 1966 it had been reprinted in newspapers throughout most of the country, with the exception of Hunan and Beijing.
In a feint, Mao called on Peng Chen, the mayor of Beijing and a political rival, to censure the journalist, whereupon Mao had a pretext for dismissing the mayor and a host of other officials.
cu.4that.info /Cultural_Revolution.html   (713 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net
But the realistic Marshal Peng Dehuai suspected what the true situation might be, so he went to local areas to inspect things for himself.
Peng Dehuai spoke out frankly about this issue many times during group discussions, listing the examples of how local officials reported exaggerated output data and of the waste of the massive steel campaign.
Peng Dehuai died as a result of persecution, and countless people were implicated.
www.clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2005/2/13/57486.html   (4171 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Peng Dehuai (Chinese And Taiwanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Peng Dehuai (Chinese And Taiwanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Peng Dehuai or P'eng Teh-huai[both: pung´ du´hwI´] Pronunciation Key, 1898–1974, Communist Chinese general and political leader.
He held various command positions in the Red Army, and in 1934–35 he joined with Mao Zedong and Zhu De in the long march.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PengDehu.html   (232 words)

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