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Victims of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Extract

The political demise of Politburo member P'eng Chen in 1966 is one of the most significant political events in the Chinese Communist movement since Mao Tse-tung gained control of the Party in the late thirties and early forties.

The 64-year-old native of Shansi is a tall, robust man who worked in north China in the labour movement during the twenties and early thirties. He has been a Party member since 1926. P'eng allegedly spent some time in jail in the early thirties, but by the mid-thirties he was a top Party operative in the Peking area where he played a major role in contacting and recruiting students into the CCP. In these endeavours he seems to have been working directly under Liu Shao-ch'i.

Type
Recent Developments: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Copyright
Copyright © The China Quarterly 1966

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References

page 164 note 1 For a short sketch of Li, see The China Quarterly, No. 26 (0103 1966), pp. 222223Google Scholar.

page 165 note 1 For a short sketch of T'ao, see The China Quarterly, No. 23 (0709 1965), pp. 6566Google Scholar.