Peng Dehuai

Peng Dehuai
/peng" du"hwuy"/
1898-1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954-59.
Also, P'eng Te-huai /pung" du"hwuy"/.

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▪ Chinese military leader
Wade-Giles romanization  P'eng Te-huai , original name  Peng Dehua 
born Oct. 24, 1898, Xiangtan, Hunan province, China
died Nov. 29, 1974, Beijing

      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 the party.

      Peng was a military commander under a local warlord and later under Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) but broke with him in 1927 when Chiang attempted to rid the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) of leftist elements. In 1928 Peng became a communist and soon afterward became involved in guerrilla activity, leading a series of peasant uprisings. He became a senior military commander under Mao Zedong and participated in the Long March (1934–35).

      Peng was the second-ranking man in the communists' military hierarchy from the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to 1954 and was a member of the Political Bureau (Politburo) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1936. He led Chinese forces in the Korean War and signed the armistice at P'anmunjŏm on July 27, 1953. In 1954 he became minister of national defense. In 1959, however, he criticized as impractical the policies of the Great Leap Forward, which emphasized ideological purity over professional expertise in both the military forces and the economy. Peng was deprived of office for a while and in 1965 was sent to the CCP's Southwest Bureau in Sichuan province. Peng was posthumously “rehabilitated” in December 1978 under the post-Mao regime.

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