Peng Zhen

Peng Zhen
▪ 1998

      Chinese political leader (b. Oct. 12, 1902, Quwo county, Shanxi province, China—d. April 26, 1997, Beijing, China), was a hard-line elder of the Communist Party and one of the "Eight Immortals," the veterans of China's 1949 revolution who helped the Communist Party set policy well into the 1980s. Though born to a peasant family, Peng attended middle school, where he joined the underground Communist Youth League. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1923. Arrested in 1929, Peng served six years in prison for organizing antigovernment activities. He led guerrilla resistance in the north during the Japanese invasion of China, later joining Mao Zedong and his forces in Yan'an. When Mao's Communists ousted Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in 1949, Peng was appointed Beijing's first party chief and, two years later, its mayor. In the 1960s Peng's relationship with Mao soured after the Great Leap Forward, a disastrous plan to accelerate the pace of development, resulted in mass starvation. Peng sided with Deng Xiaoping (q.v.) in blaming the famine on Mao. In 1966 Mao exiled Peng to the countryside, making him the first high-ranking victim of the Cultural Revolution, Mao's campaign to oust opponents and create an egalitarian society. In 1978, two years after Mao's death, Peng returned from exile to help rebuild an authoritarian legal system that included a harsh criminal code but, more important, reaffirmed Communist Party control. In 1983 he was appointed chairman of the legislative National People's Congress. He retired in 1988 but remained a force in politics, supporting the removal of reform-minded party leaders Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang and the suppression of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations.

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