27 Facts About Peng Pai

Peng Pai was a pioneer of the Chinese agrarian movement and a leading revolutionary in the Chinese Communist Party during its early years.

Peng Pai was one of the few Chinese intellectuals who were aware in the early 1920s that peasantry and land issues caused the most critical problems for Chinese society.

Peng Pai believed that the success of any revolution in China must depend on the peasants as its base foundation.

Peng Pai was born on October 22,1896, in Haifeng, Guangdong province.

Peng Pai was the second of three sons they would have together.

In 1916, as a student in the local Haifeng County High School, Peng Pai protested against the local gentry's plan to placate a hostile official by building a statue of him.

Peng Pai went to Japan in 1917 and changed his name from Peng Hanyu.

Peng Pai witnessed the Rice Riots of 1918 in Japan, and was influenced by the October Revolution in Russia.

In consequence, Peng Pai converted from a Christian to a socialist.

Peng Pai believed that only a complete social, political, and economic revolution and the creation of a socialist system could ensure China's survival.

Peng Pai finished his study in Japan and returned to Haifeng in the summer of 1921.

Peng Pai created new schools, revised the curriculums, and recruited young teachers and principals with pro-socialist ideals.

Peng Pai organized a May Day celebration parade to the county seat involving his students and "many boys and girls of wealthy families" in 1922.

Peng Pai advocated socialism by editing a journal Red Heart Weekly and using a gramophone to play music and songs to gather the villagers and try to convince them to form peasant organizations.

Peng Pai was elected the Association President on New Year's Day in 1923.

In 1924, Peng Pai became a member of Kuomintang as individuals and served as the Secretary of Peasant Department of KMT Central Committee, as the KMT-CCP Alliance had been formed since 1923.

Peng Pai was the director of the 1st and 5th terms of the PMTI, while Mao Zedong was the director of the 6th term.

Peng Pai finished his famous Report on the Haifeng Peasant Movement there and published it in The Chinese Peasants in 1926.

Peng Pai was the President of the Hailufeng Soviet, the 1st Soviet in Chinese history.

Peng Pai left Guangdong for Shanghai following CCP Central Committee's directive.

In July 1928, on the 6th National Congress of the CCP, Peng Pai was elected as a Politburo member and served as the Secretary of the Central Agrarian Movement Committee and a member of the Central Military Affairs Commission of the CCP.

In 1929, Peng Pai was betrayed by his secretary Bai Xin.

Peng Pai firmly refused to renounce his beliefs during his imprisonment, even under torture.

Peng Pai was selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering for his contributions and expertise in nuclear propulsion and Nuclear Power Engineering.

Peng Shige, a grandson of Peng Pai's elder brother Peng Hanyuan, is a distinguished mathematician and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Peng Pai is noted for his contributions in stochastic analysis and founding of Mathematical Finance in China.

Peng Pai's mother was jailed, and his third son Peng Hong was killed and buried secretly; a cousin and a nephew of Peng Pai were killed in a massacre which resulted in the deaths of over 160 people, and the head of the nephew was hung up on the pole and shown to the public for three days.