Zhao Ziyang later wrote in his autobiography that, although Deng had stated many of these sentiments in a private conversation with Li Peng shortly before the editorial was written, Li had these comments disseminated to Party members and published as the editorial without Deng's knowledge or consent.

In 2010, Li's autobiographical book, The Critical Moment – Li Peng Diaries, was published by New Century Press.

* " Li Peng, the ' Butcher of Tiananmen ,' was ' Ready to Die ' to Stop the Student Turmoil ".

At the conference, Marshal Peng Dehuai, the Minister of Defence, criticized Great-Leap policies in a private letter to Mao, writing that it was plagued by mismanagement and cautioning against elevating political dogma over the laws of economics.

Peng was replaced by Lin Biao, another revolutionary army general who became a more staunch Mao supporter later in his career.

Yao boldly alleged that Hai Rui was really an allegory attacking Mao ; that is, Mao was the corrupt emperor and Peng Dehuai was the honest civil servant.

Peng, a powerful official and Wu Han's direct superior, was the head of the " Five Man Group ", a committee commissioned by Mao to study the potential for a cultural revolution.

" The party leadership was relatively united in approving the general direction of Mao's agenda, but the charges against esteemed party leaders like Peng Zhen rang alarm bells in China's intellectual community and among the eight non-Communist parties.

Later, Peng Dehuai was brought to Beijing to be publicly ridiculed.

* " Li Peng, the ' Butcher of Tiananmen ,' was ' Ready to Die ' to Stop the Student Turmoil ".

He was jailed by the Kuomintang government for more than five years ( from 1972 and 1976, and again from 1981 to 1982 ) after helping a pro-Taiwan independence political prisoner, Peng Ming-min, escape to Japan in 1963.

After his training, Hu worked in the political department, and was assigned to work as a member of Peng Dehuai's Third Front Army.

Known as the Resist America, Aid Korea Campaign in China, the first major offensive of the Chinese forces was pushed back in October, but by Christmas 1950, the " People's Volunteer Army " under the command of Gen. Peng Dehuai had forced the United Nations to retreat back to the 38th Parallel.

One of the loudest opponents of the GLF was Defense Minister Peng Dehuai.

Peng was a believer in orthodox Soviet-style economic planning and totally against experimentations.

While taking a trip through the countryside, Peng was horrified at the wreckage of the Great Leap Forward.

Peng then lived retired in disgrace for the next several years until he was arrested and beaten by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.

After Mao's death, Peng was posthumously rehabilitated with full honors.

Few were as vocal as Peng Dehuai had been, but the general consensus was that the chairman's grand experiment had failed completely.

This play featured a wise official ( Peng Dehuai ) who was removed from office by a foolish emperor ( Mao ).

Assisting the chairman in this campaign was Lin Biao, who had succeeded Peng Dehuai as defense minister in 1960.

In the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the example of Chen in collaborating with Wang Jingwei's Wuhan government, leading to the ostracism of his peers and the failure of Communist policies at the time, was used by Peng Zhen as a warning never to " forgive " anti-Maoists.

As the protests escalated and then Party-chief Zhao Ziyang was removed from office, Jiang was selected by the Party leaders as a compromise candidate over Tianjin's Li Ruihuan, Premier Li Peng, Li Xiannian, Chen Yun, and the retired elders to become the new General Secretary.

With one flap of its wings, a Peng bird dries up the waters of the sea so that it can gobble up all the exposed dragons.

Peng was one of the most senior generals who defended the Jiangxi Soviet from Chiang's attempts to capture it, and his successes were rivaled only by Lin Biao.

During the 1937 – 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War, Peng was one of the strongest supporters of pursuing a ceasefire with the Kuomintang in order to concentrate China's collective resources on resisting the Japanese Empire.

Peng was one of the few senior military leaders who supported Mao's suggestions to involve China directly in the 1950 – 1953 Korean War, and he served as the direct commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army for the first half of the war ( though Mao and Zhou Enlai were technically more senior ).

Deng led an effort to formally rehabilitate people who had been unjustly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, and Peng was one of the first leaders to be posthumously rehabilitated, in 1978.

In modern China, Peng is considered one of the most successful and highly respected generals in the history of the early Chinese Communist Party.

When one of Peng's old comrades suggested that Peng apply to the local Hunan Military Academy to seek employment as a formally trained professional officer, Peng accepted.

By his mid-30s, Peng was one of the most senior generals in the Jiangxi Soviet.

After joining forces with communist guerrillas, one of Peng's first actions was to save Mao, whose forces were being encircled by Kuomintang units: Peng broke the encirclement and drove the enemy off.

Hu's forces were among the best-trained and most well-supplied Nationalist units, but one of Zhou Enlai's spies was able to provide Peng with information about Hu's strategic plans, his forces ' troop distributions, strength, and positions, and details about the air cover available to Hu.

" When one of Peng's political commissars suggested to him that the song The East is Red ( a song that idealizes Mao, which Mao later had sung in place of the Chinese national anthem during the Cultural Revolution ) be widely taught throughout the PLA, Peng angrily rejected the suggestion, saying " That is a personality cult!

On September 23, 1955 the State Council named Peng one of the ten marshals of the PLA, China's highest military rank.

When Peng asked an old peasant why no one was collecting the harvest, he received the answer: " unless the centre sends down a great comrade, one cannot stand up against this storm.

In his letter Peng first wrote one of his most widely quoted sayings: " I want to be a Hai Rui!

Peng was one of the first public figures singled out for persecution in 1966 by the Cultural Revolution Group.

In modern China, Peng is considered one of the greatest military leaders of the twentieth century.

After Peng was purged in 1959 for opposing Mao's Great Leap Forward, Yang was one of the few leaders of the CCP who continued to maintain a close relationship with Peng.

After Chiang's forces successfully occupied several strategic locations within the Jiangxi Soviet, in 1934, Lin was one of the first Red Army commanders to publicly advocate the abandonment of the Jiangxi Soviet, but he was opposed by most Red Army commanders, especially Braun and Peng Dehuai.

In Kuala Lumpur, Tunku moved into one of a row of hurriedly constructed single-storey timber government quarters in Kia Peng Road.

Still, there were people who deemed Sun Quan as ineligible to be their new lord, Peng Hu ( 彭虎 ) was one of them, and he led the bandits of Poyang to rebel.

The 1969 congress had adopted a sympathetic approach to the tactics of guerrilla warfare ; only one of the International's leaders opposed this approach at that time, Peng Shuzi.