P'eng

proper noun

A surname from Mandarin.

Meanings

proper nounP'eng (plural P'engs)

plural P'engs · alternative Peng

  1. A surname from Mandarin.

    P’eng Shu-tse lived through these tumultuous events, and, during a great part of them, not as a spectator but as a political leader and strategist of the working-class movement.

    1980, P’eng Shu-tse, edited by Leslie Evans, The Chinese Communist Party in Power, New York: Monad Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8
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    In the meantime, P'eng's Third Army Corps had captured Ch'angsha on July 29 and proclaimed a soviet government of three provinces (Kiangsi, Hunan, and Hupeh), with Li Li-san as its chairman in absentia.

    1966, John E. Rue, “The General Front Committee”, in Mao Tse-tung in Opposition, 1927–1935, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215

    P’ENG TEH-HUAI (c. 1900– ), Chinese revolutionist and Communist military leader, was born of a peasant family in the central Chinese province of Hunan and in the hsien (county) that was the birthplace of Mao Tse-tung. A participant in the Northern Expedition (1926–27) led by Chiang Kai-shek to unite China under a single government, P’eng joined the Communists in 1928 and quickly became a top military commander in the forces led by Chu Teh and Mao.

    1968, Donald W. Klein, “P’ENG TEH-HUAI”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 552, column 2

    Lin P’ei's mother warned him that though P’eng P’ai had no need to fear starvation, the Lin family was not so fortunate. P’eng claims that he bought some time against this threat by a Tom Sawyeresque ruse.

    1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., “Origins of a Revolution: P’eng P’ai in Haifeng, 1922-1924”, in The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 149

    P’eng P’ai was able to return to Hai-feng county on the heels of the Eastern Expedition at the end of February 1925 and to revive his shattered movement there. Membership grew rapidly to a reported 70,000, with 12,000 in neighbouring Lu-feng county, but Ch’en Chiung-ming’s troops recovered these counties in the summer and again the movement was driven underground.

    1983, C. Martin Wilbur, “The Nationalist Revolution: from Canton to Nanking, 1923–28”, in John K. Fairbank, editor, The Cambridge History of China, volume 12, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 543–544

    Gradually Mao’s military forces, and his prestige in the CCP, began to grow. First a column of CCP soldiers led by Chu Teh, then a rebel KMT unit led by P’eng Te-Huai, and finally two bandit gangs merged with Mao’s forces.

    2016, Elliott Liu, “The Turn to the Countryside”, in Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction, PM Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14

Origin

  1. Mandarin彭
  2. EnglishP'eng

From Mandarin 彭 (Péng) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻêng².

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P'eng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/P'eng

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“P'eng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/P'eng. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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