Peng was born in
Longhui County,
Baoqing Prefecture,
Hunan province in 1895. He joined the
Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1920, and later was sent to study in
Moscow. After returning to China in September 1924, Qu distributed a 70,000 word pamphlet titled
Controversial Issues in the Chinese Revolution, asserting that "our party is sick, and the name of the illness is Peng Shuzhi-ism." In Paris, his daughter Cheng Yingxiang () married the French sinologist
Claude Cadart. They later organized, translated and published Peng's memoirs entitled
L’envol du communisme en Chine. Peng and his wife moved to the United States in 1972. He died in
Los Angeles on the 28th of November, 1983, at 88 years old. ==Works==